I first met with the reservation system during the engineering admission( may be I was fortunate till then). I was confident of getting the seat in VJTI( my rank was somewhat 30 ). So I didnot face any difficulty in taking admission in VJTI. But it was after coming in VJTI that I saw the bad face of reservation. I always thought that the reservation is for the backward class. But I hardly saw a face from the so called backward class who really backward. ( Sorry to those who really think they indeed deserved reservation ). Most of people I met from the backward class in my class were in a better economic position than me. ( Again sorry to those who think otherwise ). It is not that I think the student from the general category are more intelligent. We all were equally bad( I mean it ). I know for sure that most of the so called backward student themselves dont support the reservation. But who will give away the sweet icecream( I wouldn't ). So it is not their fault. It is the government policy which is at fault. So we should all oppose Mandal-2.
Most of the people getting benifit of reservation are not poor at all. And people who are poor dont get education at all. The priority of the government should be to give at least primary education to the poor. Mid-day meal is a good project which support this cause. But is the primary education enough. No it isnt. Primary education means nothing here. You cannot be self-sufficient just by primary education. Or for that matter secondary education. We can see woman from previous generation who have secondary education but are totally illeterate. But that another issue of woman illiteracy.
So that means that we have to give them reservation in higher studies. Its true but why only backward class. Why not club all the reservation into one class, the economical backward class( and you know what I mean by that ).
If the government really cared about the poor it would have suported the Narmada Bachao Andolan. But on one side it is taking the home away from the poor and on the other promising them higher education.
From the medieval till the recent past and even now, the people from the backward class were oppressed. Now the people from the higher class feel that they are opressed. History it seems is not without a sense of irony( lifted shamelessly from The Matrix )
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Couldn't agree more with whatever u said... let merit be the only basis... U could as well sneak into my post on the same issue.
Reservations in IIT & IIM will affect the institutes & their brand image but not scoiety in general.
After all how many students aspire to get into them and how many finally manage to get through?
Reservations on caste basis are also necessary but not 49.5% maybe 30-35%.The creamy layer students should strictly not be allowed.
-Aditya Abhyankar
Ok those were Adi's thoughts.. he couldn't enter a comment without a blogger Id.
But i think even the slightest amt of reservations shud b done away wid... let merit be the only criteria.
u can view my comments on the issue on ships' blog ...
Aushutosh says-->
well it's right that we all were bad, but were we worse than the quality of both courses and pedagogy in engineering???
i dont think so.
By quality i mean eligibility to make an average BE engg. potentially useful for the society in terms of producing intellectual output. This quality measure is almost zero. To me, this degradation is because of RESERVATION both in students and teachers. (i dont want to explain the link of reasoning..) i think IITs and IIMs will follow the same link. They have to... Even god can't save india now.
no i dont think we were as bad as the quality of the education.....but that was not the point i was making.
But is this degradation u r talking about because of the quota to the teachers and students....
This is a different issue altogether.
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