Anger
at reservations is common, but such anger may be better channelled when it is
targeted at the real problem. The few tens of thousands of jobs or college
places that are subject to state policy on reservation are very small in
comparison to the daily problems that hundreds of millions of citizens endure.
Almost all reservations are caste based which is more like a social custom and
feeling among the people.
First
of all government should be clear about this issue. They have to decide their
goal, to give all castes equal power or to eliminate the caste system.in either
way the current policy is not appropriate. Initially the primary goal was to
eliminate caste system and discontinue the reservation after few years. But
politicians who wanted to exploit this issue for them self, made the situation
very complex.
There
is only one solution to eliminate caste system. The government should ban use of
CASTE. It should not offer any incentives on basis of castes. Instead it should
it should divide the society into classes to help who really deserve it. The
people should be given better education in primary and secondary level so that
the backward class people have enough skills to compete with those of higher
class for jobs or educational seats. It should give importance and incentives
for their primary and secondary education. Then we will not have the problem of
unskilled people or economic development. Even if the reservations are present
government should make sure that there is a little difference between skills of
merit students and reservation quota students. The reservations should be
periodically assessed and should be modified
so that only backward people make use of it.
A more fitting thing to do will be to get rid of anything and everything that talks about one's caste. How can one deny the existence of caste and caste based feelings when so many still carry their caste names with their names? 'what's in a name, a rose would smell as sweet..' The best thing about Mr. President Obama was that his name was so unique, none of us had heard about it before, and yet he with his personality impressed all so well. What we probably need are people who will unite every Indian, win each of our hearts with sheer merit, with true love for people.
ReplyDeleteIts not that easy to solve that issue. These reservations should be removed on a slow process. Sudden changes may cause disputes in public.Giving good education is a very efficient way to solve the issue which government had already opted. The reservation can be slowly reduced by providing reservation to only those who are economically backward. This way, we can eliminate the relatively rich people of backward caste from the list of corruption, since government should aid the economically and socially backward people, not the rich ones. This method is currently being followed for OBC category people. This is a better method because the backward caste people who are relatively rich should not rely on the government to survive. Continuing this will definitely get good results. The only unfortunate problem is that the percentage of reservation and categories for the same only seem to increase in the recent years.
ReplyDeleteBanning the usage of term cast is politically not feasible. AS soon as the government does , the leaders of backward casts start agitations for reservation. So it has to be done in many steps.In the selection procedure of students for higher studies in Indian institutions provide very high percentage of reservation. In case of OBC candidates an upper limit to income is defined which is a good measure recently similar upper limit has been defined for SC and Sts also. if we stop increasing the upper limit the people eligible for reservation decreases as the income of the citizen keep increasing. Then reservation quota has to be given for poor people in so called higher casts. after these steps it would be possible to ban 'cast' completely. And it is obvious that the skills of merit student and weaker section student who got in due to reservation. there should be some thing that supports these students after entering the educational institutions.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion true democracy is established when all people have the same ability to make the decisions regarding the government.It was for this reason the reservation policy was adopted to bring this equality in thought and goals. But when the ground of such distinctions is flawed, like in the case of caste system, problems are sure to arise.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what is happening in India due to which present the present reservation policy has failed to achieve its true purpose.
For such unjust policies to lose their hold on us, they should be slowly and shrewdly be abolished without directly pointing fingers at the caste system. Raising a direct voice against it would only result in severe opposition, riots and violence. Reservation only upto graduation level and early years of learning should be introduced. Not in post graduation or higher education. Opportunities should be provided for students to earn while they study. Economic background must be thoroughly checked and income group restrictions should properly be exercised.
Thus, reservation maybe a means to achieve equality but if not administered properly, it can also achieve inequality. The sad fact which remains is that the people who must be the actual beneficiaries are not even aware about reservations which are just usurped by the few who want reservations and at the same time cry foul over government policies and over so called upper castes.