The Indian politics largely revolves around issues which instead of getting the country developing gets it one step behind. Out of many such issues which affect the youth directly is the illogical quota system in education. The various categories of SC, OBC and many others are just ways for people to misuse the system. All that the Quota system does it, denies a harworking merit based student to miss out on an oppurtunity of pursuing his childhood dream. What it also does is stops some people to try their achieve something. I have some friends who belong from well to do families, but at the same time fall in the quota or the reservation. These are brilliant students too but what they aim is 70% and not 95% ....why?...because the system allows them to think low.
What the Indian Government needs to do is to develop infrastructure to support students financially at the base level. Also if they want to keep the reservations, they should keep it till 7th grade or max 10th grade, beyond that it should be totally merit based. I know there are more than million of students, parents in the country who share this emotion that I do but at the same time they know, the politics of this country will only increase the reservations.
While this happens many people will pursue dreams before harsh realities will come and face them and many will die out of depression or rather lets say "the reservation oppression".
This is something which I faced after my 12th grade and it changed my career, it changed my dreams and it was not because of lack of merit but it was due to lack of having a lower caste certificate...
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Couldnt resist going through the blog once I read the post-head.
It was 2001 summer;I had to get the jharkhand combined entrance form for medical stream. Just at the door step of the elite RMCH campus, some students were blocking the roads,requesting the government to take back the quotas BESTOWED on the current education system. I asked them the reason of so much fuss. Whats the deal if some reservation is allotted to a group of needy. I was given the following stats :
For SC->29%
ST->20%
BC->17%
OBC->7% reservation.
This leaves full 27% seats for the general category. So who are the needy?
Your article revived all those and many more instances where a general category student has suffered because of the quota system in India.
I think if the government really wants to help out the LESS PRIVILEGED people, it would be better to ease out their financial burdens rather than reserving seats for them.The students should get into institutes as per their merits all right; and then for the needy, government may reduce the fees or so.
This was a good topic to stir Sajid bhai....keep goin :-)
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