reservations...

hmmm...reservations...a really controversial topic....it looks like all of you have reached a consensus that the move by the government was just an act to get political mileage...
let's have a look at this delicate topic from both sides....not just thinking that we belong to the general category...
firstly, by having reservations the quality of premier institutions like IIMs and IITs are being diluted. Lets say that the measures taken by the government is a blunt to India's knowledge edge.
The OBC's include a whooping 50%(almost) of the Indian population. but do the really needy ones get this privilege...do the poor people living in the arid lands of Rajasthan without water and proper meals get an advantage?? NO...it is really sobering to note that a certain creamy layer (the ones who became doctors and engineers through their reservation and now using this to send their sons or daughters to premier institutions) are enjoying these privileges...the fact lies that they DONOT lack good education...they have all the facilities ...like the general category...just that they have the name OBC and hence they are using it to their advantage.
Secondly, i want to know ...many people make the lame excuse that they don't support this reservation becoz it is not reaching out to the needy...so if there is a rule that THE CREAMY LAYER IS NOT ENTITLED TO THESE RESERVATIONS, WOULD YOU AGREE TO RESERVATIONS????
;) ..i'm wondering....
thirdly, i think it is a better idea to have reservations in the lower levels of education..lets say good schools. really good schools…. the idea of compulsory education...does not entitle OBC students to have admission to good schools....the idea of this act is to give the OBCs a fair chance to coaching materials for competitive examinations, a good foundation...it is another thing that the home and parents should be able to help the student..but having an admission in a good school..is already like half the battle won.
Then the idea of increasing the number of seats is downright ridiculous..to say the least...it is not a matter of having more classrooms ...it is a matter of quality faculty...IIM's are having a shortage of faculty...without looking into this matter and making such a gaffe is hopeless.
the idea of reservations was to amalgamate the suffering, pain and humiliation felt by the OBCs for many years....they have a right to quality education...but at college level??
lets start with school and I think admission to colleges will automatically come with it...
Earlier in the fifties when India just got independence, nobody was rallying on the streets or undertaking hunger strike because it was understood that reservation was necessary for a better India…
BUT NOW??EXCESS IS ON THE VERGE OF DESTROYING THE NECESSARY.

As M J Akbar said” Reservations are now the interest collected by pick pocketing the future of India and paid by politicians for loans taken from their vote banks.
The students are out on the streets because politicians are stealing the future of the young in order to preserve the power of the old politicians. Politics is once again turning a crack into a chasm.
I think it is really a disaster to have reservation into place…..
Tc
Signing off…
Give me ur views…
anna