Malice in Blunderland
I crashed in Reddy's room the previous day. Thankfully, he woke me up at 7:45 am and I could attend the 'Pavement Materials' class. As soon as I came back to hostel, I woke up Vamsi, who was crashing in my room. (Btw, Vamsi is a popular senior of mine at our hostel whose nick is 'mallesh'. He is working at Xylings, Hyderabad and was here on a holiday.) We started gossipping. He talked of good old college days he's missing. And I told him how we are celebrating our undergrad days that are almost going to end.
After sometime, I started to glance through the newspaper. Head lines grabbed my attention. It was something on IIT and IIM. One institute where I belong to; the other where I long to belong. My keenness was just involuntary. I read through. The headlines said, "IIT, IIM entry to turn tough over quotas". The article said that the total reservation is likely to hit the appalling levels of 49.5% from the present 22.5%!!!
Height of Insanity!!!
Do these politicians know how big that percentage of 49.5 is? The shoddy MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) wants to cut down the chances of hardworking people from the 'forward' castes. Why do they want to play around with those numbers just to favour their position in elections and parliament?
They are just lashing out at the hopes and futures of thousands of brilliant (unfortunately forward caste) students.
Well... It's high time they get their basics right.
Reservation in the educational institutions should be given to those people who donot have the benifit of good primary education, good coaching for competitive exams and who are differently abled etc. (I might be missing out on few peoples here.)
Reservation may be given on the basis of financial position; not caste. Not race. Not religion. Not gender. Because when you are making things easy for selected poeple on these shallow grounds, you are allowing mediocrity to seep in. Poeple who are well settled and financially sound get to take advantage of these measures. Finally, the goal of reaching the financially and socially weak but intellectually bright students will remain a distant dream. So instead of considering the option of augmenting the percentage of reserved seats, the policy makers can make sure that the present 22.5% is helping the needy.
The present reservation system can also be emended by decreasing the number of reserved seats if the primary education in the country is improved - in terms of accessibility and quality.
Hope our legislators think some sense, keeping in mind one of the objectives of our constitution - EQUALITY of status and of opportunity. Or did they already forget it?
After sometime, I started to glance through the newspaper. Head lines grabbed my attention. It was something on IIT and IIM. One institute where I belong to; the other where I long to belong. My keenness was just involuntary. I read through. The headlines said, "IIT, IIM entry to turn tough over quotas". The article said that the total reservation is likely to hit the appalling levels of 49.5% from the present 22.5%!!!
Height of Insanity!!!
Do these politicians know how big that percentage of 49.5 is? The shoddy MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) wants to cut down the chances of hardworking people from the 'forward' castes. Why do they want to play around with those numbers just to favour their position in elections and parliament?
They are just lashing out at the hopes and futures of thousands of brilliant (unfortunately forward caste) students.
Well... It's high time they get their basics right.
Reservation in the educational institutions should be given to those people who donot have the benifit of good primary education, good coaching for competitive exams and who are differently abled etc. (I might be missing out on few peoples here.)
Reservation may be given on the basis of financial position; not caste. Not race. Not religion. Not gender. Because when you are making things easy for selected poeple on these shallow grounds, you are allowing mediocrity to seep in. Poeple who are well settled and financially sound get to take advantage of these measures. Finally, the goal of reaching the financially and socially weak but intellectually bright students will remain a distant dream. So instead of considering the option of augmenting the percentage of reserved seats, the policy makers can make sure that the present 22.5% is helping the needy.
The present reservation system can also be emended by decreasing the number of reserved seats if the primary education in the country is improved - in terms of accessibility and quality.
Hope our legislators think some sense, keeping in mind one of the objectives of our constitution - EQUALITY of status and of opportunity. Or did they already forget it?
posted by Dilip Acharya at
4:27 PM
4 Comments:
Please read the point i made in reply to your post on my blog.
your post is nothing but a knee-jerk reaction....
your own arguments..
"Reservation in the educational institutions should be given to those people who donot have the benifit of good primary education, good coaching for competitive exams and who are differently abled etc. (I might be missing out on few peoples here.)"
"The present reservation system can also be emended by decreasing the number of reserved seats if the primary education in the country is improved - in terms of accessibility and quality."
"Hope our legislators think some sense, keeping in mind one of the objectives of our constitution - EQUALITY of status and of opportunity. Or did they already forget it?"
your own arguments point to the need for reservations. you are not against reservations per se but against the misuse of reservations.
please do not confuse your stand.
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Myndfcukd, at 4:43 PM
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Dilip Acharya, at 4:46 AM
@sandeep
if u read my words carefully, u'll understand my stance better. coz, i meant the following:
1. I'm aginst increasing the percentage of reserved seats.
2. I'm for giving a better meaning to the present reserved section of the seats.
3. In the near future, I want to see a system free from reservation.
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Dilip Acharya, at 4:51 AM
Reservations should be augmented only after making sure that the present numbers are proving to be useful. Right now, as the directors of the elite institutes like IITs and IIMs said, people who get in to these institutes are financially and socially self sufficient. They come from well-to-do families; hence eat up the chances of the counter parts with lesser luck.
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