I am not a supporter of reservations of seats based on cast, I had also participated in the nationwide protests against reservations when our dear, stupid, sycophant, opportunist Arjun Singh had proposed the reservations. When the issue was taken up by Supreme Court, like everyone I expected some rational decision, something practical but alas that was not to be...
The elite judges at the country's highest court wrote hundreds of pages, disregarded various facts and concluded that 27% reservations in government funded central education institutions was necessary.
Considering the state of affairs now, it would not be surprising if the following happened:
1. Reservation in private sector jobs.
2. Reservation of seats in public transport (like railways and buses)
3. Reservation of products of companies (for example: out of every 100 nokia N series phone 27 would be reserved for OBCs)
4. Reservation of roads (27% of the roads in the city would be used only by OBCs)
5. Reservation of food at restaurants (27% of burgers at McDonalds will be served only to OBCs)
Am I being insane? I don't think so, though the ideas sound ridiculous, believe me nothing is really impossible.
While I firmly believe that some action is required to elevate the conditions of SC/STs and OBCs, I have no doubt in my mind that reservations are not the solutions. The exclusion of creamy layer is just a farce as it is not a difficult task to bribe a lawyer and get a false income affidavit or for that matter a false caste certificate.
The solution to this bane is not by reserving seats in premier institutes and stigmatizing a candidate to be an OBC or an SC/ST but by improving the system of education at the primary level, this however is easier said than done. Its not that the government does not run programs to improve the state of education, but due to various reasons mostly attributed to the hypocrite politicians and the corrupt government Babus, the condition never improves. Even if we were to accept reservations in engineering colleges, I simply fail to understand how one even thinks of having reservations in Medical colleges. Will the same Arjun Singh be ready to be treated by a doctor who studied on a seat won by reservation?
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