63 years and still countingggggg......the RESERVATION
Many of you might feel that y I opted to go for the wrong spelling of a simple word???Well it’s just to lay emphasis over the underlying issue which seems to be a quite serious one and must have haunted each one of us in some way or the other. Yes i am talking about the issue of RESERVATION though meant for the upliftment of the weaker section of the society but now seem out to be nightmare for the meritorious students.
Well when the framers of our constitution have drafted the lengthiest written of its type some 60 years back they wouldn’t have even imagined about the current scenario. Our constitution provided the reservation to the SC and ST with a weight age of 7.5% and 15% respectively but our democratically elected representatives just for the sake of their vote bank have mad provisions for the reservations of OBC’s as well and that took a heavy toll of 27% and now that makes the total number of reserved seats up to 49.5%, if the situation prevails then the time is not far away when we will have to provide reservation to the people belonging to the General Category.
It’s not just that reservation denies the deserving ones their due it also hampers the very intellectualism of the nation coz when the people who are at the helm of various posts are not sufficiently capable of doing their assigned job, how can we expect them to function properly and in turn our nation.
Recently I came across an article which stated that in Allahabad Medical College there are a few students belonging to the reserved category who are in the age of around 38-40 and are yet not able to get their MBBS degree, isn’t it a symbolic of degradation of the academic standards in our nation????How can such people become good doctors in future??? Or do we really need them???In my opinion it’s a sheer wastage of government funds, money and resources. Another example is from the CPWD department where the employees of the reserved category of batch as late as 2000 were promoted to the designation of A.E and the people belonging to the general category of batches as early as 1990 are yet to get their due, isn’t this going to create a discontent amongst those hard working employees when they will see their juniors becoming their bosses????How can we expect a good government work then?
The pro –reservation supporters will argue that there are still weaker sections of the society which need to be taken care-off so that they can come up-to the normal level to lead a happy life, I also have the same feeling and sentiments but I just don’t understand the blindfolded approach of government in imparting reservation, I feel the policy should be a bit more rationale and justifiable.
I mean suppose a person has become an IAS officer through the reserved category then don’t think so he really needs to get the privileges of being in a backward class when the person reaches to such a post then at least his direct descendants should not be allowed to enjoy the same rights as he did in the past.
Also at college level there should be some norms for the students that if they are unable to pass the exams in a certain period of time they should be terminated, many will argue that the people belonging to the reserved category are discriminated and not treated respectfully, my argument is that if the govt. itself differentiates them then how can the common man is supposed to be unbiased towards them???I might sound a bit harsh to the people who are supporters of reservation but actually I am not, m just against the way how reservation is assigned. Instead of providing reservation on the basis of the CASTE it should be provided based on the economic status of a person or family, another good option is to provide the reservation at the primary education level rather than providing it at the some of our premier institutions like IIT’s and IIM’s because I this way we can also prevent the declining trend in our academic standards.
There can be some other ways too apart from the above mentioned and I will surely support them but I m in strong disagreement with the current RESERVATION POLICY......................
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