1. Reservations as a policy: This was introduced by Dr. Ambedkar as a temporary measure to uplift the socially and economically downtrodden societies. This has now become a vote-machine. I think reasons are self-explanatory.
2. Efficacy of Reservations: A policy can be graded by its reach, implementation loopholes and malleability. Reservations have proved to be lacking on all these 3 fronts.
3. Basis: It is a shocking fact that the data with the government is a "liitle" old. Exact number of "little" is 75! Yes. The data that the government has was taken in the 1931 census [:o]
4. Change: . The policy, at this stage, begs for a change. I say that reservations should be there, but just should not be based on caste decided at birth. I liked the way Lok Paritran modelled the policy in their manifesto:
Combination of the following two factors to determine the reservation:
FC : Grandfather / father : graduate or more
BC : Father : graduate or more
OBC: Father is 12th or less or first generation students
Add this to the economic angle
FC : Income levels : 100,000 or more per annum
BC : 24,000 or less but more than 10,000
OBC : less than 10,000 besides the current status
FC : owns house valued 100,000 or more + pays income tax for 5 years or more + owns vehicle + has income tax PAN number
BC : Do not own a house nor income tax owns a vechicle (or please suggest more options)
OBC : None of the above
Pro-reservationists would jump at this saying that this policy is so porous that it would allow rampant malpractices. All that they need to do is stay in a Tehsildar's office to see the number of false community certificates that are doled out everyday.
After all, democracy is a levelling doctrine and more people you have for a side of the argument, more "levelled" it is in the eyes of democracy. We can only hope and pray that better sense prevails.
2 comments:
I agree to this 100%. Now a days a same community has people of extreme states. Same set of people are getting the benefits of reservation again & again. Lok paritran's model is what I've been thinking for long & am sure that it is not going to happen, since, as you mentioned, the vote bank will be hit badly.
there is no fool proof reservation method...even in this method that LP suggest, why shud i be 'punished' coz my grandfather is educated or why shud i be rewarded coz my father didnt go to school?
There is only one sensible way : 1.Abolish any form of reservation in higher education.
2.Fully concentrate on lower/primary education.
3.Free/Subsidise education and stop treating education like bussiness.
anyway, this is never gonna hapen#
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