Reena Puri, Delhi : Dear friends as we all are aware about the reservation system in India always a question of debate. In India reservation is based on caste,religion,physically challenged etc. Reservation always have positive and negative impact on our society.
Give your comment what should be the system to bring equality in India. Caste based reservation is strongly opposed by the group of people . It is time to provide reservation to all the caste , who is actually poor , not to certain caste in the society. I have seen many poor who belong to SC and BC are not able to avail reservations. Because they dont have bassic education their parents are domestic worker and they also start working at the age of 14 at the near residence area as a domestic helper.Government should start counseling at the slum area, so that actually poor SC and BC can be benefited.
I know that reservation provides a opportunity to bring people from social status,education,economy of lower caste to a position equal to upper caste. But what about those lower cast people who have already taken befits of reservation and having good position india. Why they are blocking the career of the SC and BC to avail again and agin reservation. If one SC or BC is having good reputation in society morally he or she should stop availing reservation.
Reservation is perhaps necessary for removing disparities and inequalities in our society. But what was meant to be a concession has now become a weapon for the politicians to be used as a vote-catching device. It has been politicized in the name of economic uplift. Seats are reserved whether a suitable candidate is found or not. The result is that some unsuitable persons have come to hold important positions. It led to heart burn among capable, intelligent and appropriate candidate.
Now it is not limited to only jobs, educational institutions and legislatures have also reservations including in the distribution of land and allotment of houses. There is reservation in the grant of scholarships and loands, health care and legal facilities. Even once the Supreme Court, in a judgement said, ”Excessive zeal for depressed classes is fraud on the Constitution that could destroy the ideal supremacy of merit and efficiency of the services and absence of discrimination.”
The situation has reached a point where it has become a matter of right. Rather than retain it in its present form, economic and monetary help can be provided to them. In view of the enormity of anti-reservation feelings among the people, there is need for a national consensus on the issue.
Concessions, at the cost of national integrity are dangerous. The rulers should read the writings on the wall and reconsider the issue to fulfil the expectations and aspirations of the common people as a whole.
Y.S. Rana
Senior Journalist
I feel reservation should only based on Income resources. Many reserved people have taken so much benefit out of it and become socially stable now. But upper caste people have so much links and relations that they still can get jobs through unfair means. Sometimes some people conceal income & make fake certificates, affidavits to get jobs. So overall its a bit cumbersome to identify who is actually deserve the Reservation. I think the best solution is to lower the reservation percentage to a small figure and make another reservation based on Income. So we can have two reservation systems which caters to all needs of the society.
Pls read the above comments in positive frame of mind.
It should be based on economic criteria and only for certain duration. and better will be to provide additional resources and educational support to the marginalized and economically vulnerable section of society and let all come in an open competition ultimately. it is irony that after more than 64 years of Independence we are unable to provide potable water and basic sanitation to our population….and on other hand crores and crores of black money and billions ki scams….ashamed of our democracy on this front…..
An Anthropologists’ wisdom on Supreme Court’s statements on reservations for OBC .-
Solomon says unequals can’t be treated as equal so reservation is needed and we say you were right in the first half of the sentence and so a true competition is must which counts only merit as the “”survival of the fittest” is true for all time in the nature. So you had to prepare an equal opportunity for each citizen and let him/her to compete for common goal as per individual capability without any bias . As nature has made each individual different so only selected ones will be able to achieve a specific position in common conditions and society will keep maintaining its difference of gradients for each one and will be able to keep off a collision among its members for a common interest of limited resources . So you can’t replace yours own responsibility of providing equal opportunity to each citizen by reservations . By supporting part of citizens by shortcut ways you are projecting yours own incapability on fate of the nation. You were the system and you had to accomplish this job of maintaining the sanctimony of the democratic processes without any preference other than an individual’s knowledge quotient. Instead of creating an atmosphere of equal opportunity, you put an individual of better capability behind a less one and just see where the country is going!!! There is a manifested chaos in the country. Incapable ones are predominating everywhere in each organization of the society or nation and trying to lead the country with their magical approaches for each problem. And we acknowledge this as a mistake by you only as you allowed for a logic in reverse of the laws of the nature. Respected authorities you are calling a self created delusion the hard reality and you are even not confident of yours own analysis!!! How will you guide the nation with this loose confidence??? Yours own people are going to ruin you in foot steps . Revolts are now approaching to the reign of Dhritrashtra and the country is very soon at civil war my incapable lords. -Dr. ashu kumar , AIIMS, New Delhi
Dear Reena, I am 100% agree with you. I know one person in our University he is in Prof grade and must be getting more than 80,000/- PM. But the bad part is his son is availing SC reservation benifts.
He can afford his fees but he is getting special money sanction by the center government.
I think reservation should be only for poor. And open for all Indians. Without cast and religion.
Kanwaljit
Ldh
Every individual has a dream, a wish to be fulfilled. Most of these dreams can come true through education and experience. However, many persons born to the lower economic class are unable to get a seat as per preference as institutions are getting more and more money minded. The fees needed to be paid are too high for such candidates. Also, most educational institutions have high cut-offs which makes it impossible for low scoring students to attain admission in their preferred institution. This is obviously a result of the amount of competitiveness concentrated in youngsters nowadays. Even parents are pressurising their children to do better and achieve top ranks either to help them build a fruitful future or purely for boasting purposes.
Hence, reservations for the physically challenged and lower economic class is acceptable. On the other hand, unnecessary reservations must be avoided.
If used for the correct reasons, reservations are beneficial.
Actually castes & creeds based reservation is totally illogical these days, because Brahamans are selling Shoes & Balmikies are delivering Sermons, all are alike & go to eating & drinking Jaunts to sit & enjoy together but the politicians do not want to eradicate this cancerous reservations for the reasons obvious, need not to mention but must be mentioned here that to disintegrate & divide the Indian Soicety for getting votes in the name of Castes & Creeds.
This reservation must be for handicapped & economically weaker sections but on merit basis only, so that capable, not liablity like personnels can be taken into Institutions for study & for employments in offices.
Rest all type of reservations ought to stopped forthwith, if this nation has to be saved from the visible divisions & partitions in the name of prevalent policies of reservations in the coming days.
Though it is a hard decision but it has to taken in the interest of the nation, if all are cosidered equal as per versions in speeches & lectures of the Care Takers of the nation, whereas the workings are altogether contrary. Deplorable state of affairs indeed–dr.amritgaur