When I was busy giving my MBA entrances, the reservation issue became a standard joke. Most of us went around tracing our family trees, trying to discover atleast ONE tribal root (there HAD to be something tribal about all the jhingala weirdness in my family!)..but to no avail. In the end, some of my colleagues, despite their much poorer performance in the exams and despite the fact that they had the social standing to attend more coaching institutes than I had, got calls (ALL 6) from the IIMs…which had shunned me with my 95 percentile (there were others who got shunned with 97/98 too..). Maybe I could have (Should have) studied harder…hell… there can be a lot of maybes…but I wouldn’t have had the slightest of complaints had the less deserving not got in either. The whole thing sadly left a bitter taste in the mouth.
It’s been a slap in the face alright for Arjun Singh and whoever else is supporting the 27% scam of his. For once the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the masses rather than our rather pathetic ruling diaspora…Yet it remains to be seen how effective the ruling finally will be once the definition of what constitutes “creamy layer” is frozen.
Our politicos thought they’d had it easy…get 49.5% of the seats reserved in the best institutes of the country for the “backward” classes...and get their kids in without the slightest of hassle…all in the name of “greater good”. But the fact remains, that the corrective measure in graduate and post-grad courses that the ministers are trying to introduce, is futile, considering that a majority of those we are trying to help are primary/high school dropouts….leaving us with the “moneyed-backward” classes, trying to take advantage of a heart-wrenchingly flawed system.
Given that, who now will occupy those 27% seats? Statistics do not support the fact that there are enough needy OBCs who have reached higher education levels to fill in the 27%. So are fake tax returns easy to get hold of?? Or will the definition of “creamy layer” allow one and all to access those seats??
In the “We The People” episode dealing with the reservation issue, the dean of IIT Delhi clearly stated where the flaw lay. He said that he, who had been brought up in dire circumstances, had low cost government primary education in Tamil Nadu, to thank for his status today. However, he interestingly pointed out, that all those schools had now been shut, leaving hundreds of poor children with no alternatives. Why?? Because the poor there no longer made up the votebank of the ruling politicians….and thus there needs were not catered to anymore.
Ummm…remind me once again what is it that we are really protesting against??? The ones who can actually justify this reservation hullabaloo haven’t even got proper schooling…so who exactly will snatch our seats from us? Back to the corrupt offspring of the corrupt classes…someone will fill up those seats…they can’t leave so many seats empty!
Every one with the slightest sense has gone blue in the face repeating the obvious…improve primary education, give scholarships to those who can’t afford higher education instead of reserving seats and leaving loopholes to enable the fake certificate manufacturing industry to thrive.
It’ll take time to clean up the system of course. Till then, listen to your folks people and work harder…50.5% is still up for grabs…make the most of it…and to wind the seemingly endless monologue…take heart from the fact that there are a few decent folks in the world who have the pride and self respect to stand up for themselves and do not abuse a useless system unnecessarily. A senior of mine in school belonged to the SC category…but gave the IIT entrance as a “Gen”…ranked 64 at the All-India level…and am sure we’ll hear his name as one of the tycoons soon....
Hope still exists in this otherwise corrupt country of ours…at least no one is banning my blog just because I dared to raise my voice against the fools who dare to call themselves our leaders (excluding Manmohan Singh…You rock…just try not buckling under Big Mamma’s influence)….Unlike in Russia…where it was shutters down for the Moskovsky Korrespondent who dared to spice up our otherwise mundane existence with some gossip pertaining to the ex-Russian Prez and his love for the gymnast! Sudden financial troubles seem to have developed in that organization and the financier backed out….sigh…why do they bother to cover up with such stupid excuses …
2 comments:
Well reservation has lost its significance in today's world.It is serving self purpose of some seated in heady places. Pretty unfortunate for us all. See how these esteemed MPs/MLAs reacted when they were tagged "creamy layer" and came to know that quota bounty has nothing for them. I would rather support something on lines of affirmation policy of US or better empower those who cant pursue studies or lack basic facility. A SC/ST/OBC studying in Delhi/Mumbai enjoys far more opportunities than a Brahmin boy/girl in a remote village of Bihar/Rajsthan . then how about giving more opportunities to those lacking opportunities. A poor person or a person stayin in a remote India sans much of facilities perhaps deserves such opportunities even if under the garb of much maligned reservation . May the sanity prevail......
Amen :)
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