Should we encourage reservation ?
By cobradene
@cobradene (1171)
India
November 2, 2007 2:40pm CST
This is a major concern in India today. Everyday, we notice reservation introduced everywhere. How much more? That's the question we have to ask. How many seats more are going to reserve for lower the communities? And what do they benefit from this? Is it not better to raise the quality of education and improve the infrastructure? If you the government would take care of this, then there will be no question of reservation at all. The good student will find his way through scholarships anyway. Which is better? Reservation or better quality and improved infrastructure?
6 responses
@CEN7777 (855)
• India
4 Nov 07
No cobradene, Iam always against sort of reservation, I never liked it. If government wants to help lower community or poor peoples , They should Provide them some of basic things like free books, Free education, Free accomodations in hostel, arrange extra clases and some other necessary helps. Let them compete with others and allow best to represent. But I never want my government to reserve seats in educational institute and jobs this will disencourage the real good deserving peoples.
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@cobradene (1171)
• India
4 Nov 07
But the cat is already out of the bag. Nobody can hold it back now. The next government will come and do the same thing, but in a different way. But are they really improving infrastructure. They will not and will never. They want to play a poor man's vote game.
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@cobradene (1171)
• India
4 Nov 07
So it's the river flowing down hill. What goes down will go really down. So everything will be in shambles one day and finally there will be a new beginning. And I guess that new beginning will take a long time to come. Thanks your response.
@limcyjain (3516)
• India
3 Nov 07
NO the govt should not encourage reservation as this is going to lead to poor quality talent entering all phases of the industry leading to forced incompitency in the industry. Actually it is a vote bank game which various political parties are playing. It is really shocking to note that various comunities are coming out on roads to press that they should be registered as backward class. Do they find pride in this. They are trying to get a status which would give them benifits of getting jobs easily. Surely the govt is not interested in improving infrastructure for providing better education but are interesed in increasing their vote banks.
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@cobradene (1171)
• India
4 Nov 07
Yes, aren't we the ones electing them? Who is supposed to change the system and how ? These are the questions arising out of this. And how are the people going to come forward and raise the voice? Again "might is right" seems to be the law.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
3 Nov 07
This country has gone to dogs because of stupid reservation system which we are following due to idiotic politicians who in order to buy up the votes and come to power. That is one of the reasons why there is so much of brain drain in India. A day will come, Indian government will be run by those guys who have secured 35% of marks, and under the guise of reservation come to power to run the show. The caste politics is bringing down the quality of life in India.
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@cobradene (1171)
• India
3 Nov 07
Thanks. I totally agree with you. Politics in this country is nothing but Gundaism. And only the might is right over here. And we can't raise a voice against the atrocities today. If anybody does, he faces his end. Yes, things are not heading in the right direction. Really scary when we think what the younger generation will go through.
@SViswan (12051)
• India
3 Nov 07
I know reservation came into effect to bring the lower classes to be educated. But now, it is useless and a waste of time and money. I know of a person born to parents of an inter-caste marriage. She follows her mother's caste but everytime she needs some official stuff done, she takes on her dad's caste (for reservation sake). I think there should be reservation based on merit and not caste. Giving a seat to a lower caste who has scored 45% marks (especially in professional courses like medical courses) and thus a student from a higher caste who has scored 90% loses out. Is it his/her fault that she was born into a higher caste? Earlier, when the reservation came into effect, there were too many seats and too few students...so it was fine then but not now when children work hard to get where they want to be and some others take advantage of the reservation.
I feel the government should spend all that money they would otherwise spend on the lower classes on improving the quality of education.
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@lalchetian (410)
• India
3 Nov 07
no certainly not . ambedkar while starting it clearly told that it should be for 15 years now its complete waste.shorly resevation will change to for fward castes becausethey will be backward then ha ha
@cornchips50 (204)
• Philippines
6 Nov 07
May i join u cobradene? Are you weighing or comparing which is better RESERVATION or IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE in your country today? In my opinion reservation in your country much needed. Because of your large population. However, these public lands should be awarded to poor families in the form of LAND FOR THE LANDLESS PROGRAM. Here in our country we are offering this kind of reservation. In order to have a good, wholesome community. Building homes is better because EDUCATION STARTS AT HOME, right? As for me the meaning of reservation is the act of reserving, advance request for accomodation and a public land intended for people living in shanties. The INFRASTRUCTURE is secondary because you can not change something that has started wrong right away. It needs more study,experience and advice. More prayers in order to enlightened the ruler of your country who maybe not in the right path.
Godbless,
cornchips
@cobradene (1171)
• India
6 Nov 07
I agree with your views. But, the problem is, reservation is based on caste system. The whole education system is wrong, because, when you belong to a General category, even if you score 90% your seat is relinquished to a person who belongs to a lower community who has scored only 60%, just because he belongs to the backward community or a scheduled caste. But that's not how education should be treated. And yes, you must build more homes, which the government will never do. They want to create hunger, they want to create misunderstanding between communities and they will not let education progress, otherwise, how will they ever manage to get votes from the illiterate?
You certainly have to increase quality of education before introducing reservation. And even if you want to introduce reservation, have a certain cut mark, like 90%. But overall, in my opinion, the idea of communities and classes should go and everybody must be treated as a common human being. The problem is with the religion which has so many castes and sub-castes, that nobody can be treated a like. There needs to be a change now.
@cobradene (1171)
• India
7 Nov 07
Yea, that' what I mean and it's very important. I'm praying for it too. Thanks. :)
@cornchips50 (204)
• Philippines
7 Nov 07
Did you mean the rigid social division in India? You can not change a hereditary classes that has been practice into which Hindus are divided.
Now i know why a lot of Indian Nationality lives here in my country for better education. I salute them.
Let's just hope and pray that one day a good leader in your country will change this caste system in order to get better education.
godbless
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