what is your take on the reservation issues rocking the Indian Higher Education these days?

Question

is it not a total departure from the principles of equality on which everything is based. imagine merit taking a back seat in almost all walks of life. and forget abt Indian education becoming top class. the case is this: some people can be lazy and still get into the best institutions in the country just because they are the "low caste" when we break our balls with work and all we see are reduced opportunities. i am from the so called low caste and every time i get admission in some worthwhile place they say its becoz of my caste. and in my life, and in my parents lives not a single thing good has come to us with this reservation.

Answer 1

In its own stead, nothing is bad or good. It is the way it is used, implemented and taken up that makes it bad or good. In India reservation was and is used to please some people and get quick votes, be it SC&ST provisions in constitution which was originally meant for 15 years or implementation of Mandal commission after its lying in cold storage for years. There are many aspects of reservation. It is fact there are some strata of society who need support to rise from their current status of poverty or backwardness. Not all of us who have not seen deprived life know they really know what a backward person faces in her/his life.
However there is opposition for reservation because the benefit of it is are not going to actual people rather they are taken up by some people of these society who are already in upper class whereas actual needy people are still at the same place. No one will object if a really needy get the benefit, Most of people are furious since it is someone who is not needy who is reaping benefit. There are many arguments in this reservation issue:
1. Instead of caste basis, give it on economic basis: As far as making economic condition as criteria is concerned, there is always good and bad of all thoughts. Good about this will be that this should be the correct way to decide for giving help however there are too many lacunas in this as getting certificate for economic background is very easy to get since no one file income tax return and there is no proof of incomes for people other than salaried people so what will happen ultimately is again people who do not deserve the benefit will get it and needy will remain eluded with this.
2. Incompetent people in jobs: I agree that when it comes to job then what we need are competent people in jobs to provide proper service and let our country grow. It is wrong to say the people who need help to rise first time are not competent but what is required is that we bring them up and educate and train them so that they are competent enough to take up the challenges.
3. Would you like a doctor coming through quota to operate on you who does not how to use scalpel: Now if we talk about getting a doctor without enough skills. This is often repeated example but what we fail to understand that a person cannot be a doctor just by getting admission in medical college. S/he became doctor after passing out from the college. If we say that college examination system is such that they will pass person without knowledge then problem does not lie in reservation in admission but in examination system which required to be looked into. Having said that if education system is not good and it will allow person without skill to get the degree then what is guarantee that a person who has come by other route let us by paying higher fees or something and for that matter what is guarantee that a person who have scored 90+ marks is good in medical study. So then we are running risk of many doctors without skills operating on us. So this argument that if the person has come with reservation will be not competent doctor is not correct. If a person has passed MBBS (s/he can be anyone reserve one or other) and do not know how to use scalpel and then we should hung all the teachers who have taught them, people who have set the papers and all the examiners who has taken their practical exams and checker who checked their examination papers.
4. What about other type of reservations: why there so much hue and cry about backward class reservations, do everyone really want selection of students on merit basis? if yes, then why there is not no one appear to oppose the other kind of quota called as management quota or nri quota. if all the protest is based on the concept of merit, will the protestant also oppose the private medical and engineering college; giving birth to so called meritorious students by engulfing a big price?
5. Reservation will take country backward: If that is true then why & how the south Indian states likes Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka are more developed than the states of north India? Though there is average 60% reservation is present in both government & private sector.
We have to swallow bitter pill that India is still not free from Caste, gender and religion bias. To remove it we need everyone at equal social status. We need healthy education that can clean our prejudices. We need reservation for those who really need that and we need a SURNAME FREE India so that EKLAVYA & ARJUNA both can serve the nation equally without any BIAS.
Sorry for lengthy but mantra for anything to be good and successful is honest implementation of the same.

Answer 2

IKR!!!!!!!!!!! I hate this process too... Its so unfair.. I had given SNAP final yr, and I obtained ninety percentile however I did not qualify on the grounds that I am from the GENERAL class... The reduce-offs for General class used to be ninety eight and the reduce-off for ST class used to be a trifling 38!!!!!!! I HATE this process... But undoubtedly, it is going to in no way pass down... If it have been founded at the fiscal situation of a man or woman, then I might have had no qualms.. But its unfair... It does not anything to take away the disparity.. V__V EDIT: I do not see how quota process used to be indispensable even again within the submit-independence interval...! The idea is wrong... Whoever announced this? I wanna return in time and kill him (I am definite it used to be a "him")... If the government desired to aid the economically backward residents, they will have to have given quota to the BPL magnificence.. as a substitute than basing it at the caste process... I do not see how they suggestion they might get rid of the caste process by way of advertising it... >_> Whoever announced used to be usually only a dull ignorant fellow... v_v