some arguments and discussion.

Reservations cannot eliminate social inequality.In fact in many instances they cause to show up the differences. If one gets a job or educational seat, it makes a general student to think that other student is helped by quota because he doesn’t have potential to get the seat by merit.

The government should help him/her by giving him opportunity, to get the potential needed to get qualified. That’s how the society will believe that they also possess abilities, and there are chances for them to be treated as equal.

Also if a person get into an Institute or job by using his/her reservation quota, he/she does not possess all the skills to work (or at least when compared to the people who are selected on basis of merit), so they cannot perform well in their job or studies and there many cases in which scst students are dismissed due to their poor academic performance. The mistake here is not with the students but with the policy of reservations. Even with reservation quota government should ensure that the students have abilities to perform well after joining.

                In many cases merit students go out of country because of lack of opportunitiesinspite of their merit and skills. In the present economic situation where India needs to use its full resources, man power and skilled people. And this reservation quota is bringing in the people who have lesser skills. So it is creating hindrance to our economic development. The term Brain Drain is often used by people opposing reservations, and I support this fact.

One major argument of reservation supporters is that only forward class people are enjoying the fruits of development of our country, so it has to be shared among all backward caste people. So reservations are must. But the development itself is not coming from outside. Development and its benefits are mutual. So replacing the skilled people with unskilled people will result in degrading of growth. True solution lies not in giving them jobs who don’t have skills but lies in giving the people skills and participating in actual development.

If the argument is that they do not have enough resources, opportunities to compete with the higher cast people, it is not a valid argument at all. It is the problem faced by most of the rural students, the problem is not limited lower caste but to broader group of people, which cannot be solved by caste based reservation policy.

In IITs every year about 100 seats are going waste because sc/st students are not able to meet the minimum required cut-off for qualification.100 seats may not seem like a big number but for IITs where about 100 students compete for one seat, it is really a big problem to deal with.