Monday, August 15, 2011

Aarakshan: Reservation:: Reserve or Reverse Part-II

In my last post I shared with you part-I of my view point on this debatable issue of reservation. In this post I wanna open with a question of reality. 

After 64 years of Independence where does India stand? Advancement in technology and infrastructure is one thing, advancement in its people's mindset is another. As an Indian I would like to brag about the former (even if certain stuff is only gas) but, as the same Indian am I proud of the latter? 

Lets go back to our history lesson to "try" answering the above.. 

When the reservations were introduced, naturally all the lower class people drank in jubilation for their "freedom" and most of the upper class drank in dejection for loosing out on privileges. They failed to notice that  they have enjoyed 100% of these privileges for so long and its time they learnt to share these privileges. This caused the pro reservation and anti reservation groups to emerge. However, the country wasn't deprived of saints back then. There were some high class people who were pro-reservation and wanted India, their country to evolve like the other countries of the world. 

As time passed by, these privileges could no longer be categorized as privileges. The access to and supply of ways to improve lifestyle boomed and there was enough room for everybody. And by law of nature, the Anti- reservation-ists mellowed down. Thanks to reservation, today class/caste can't be defined by the present "occupation".It simply denotes what our fore fathers and families did for their living. People of one class have now crossed over to another class by occupation. Everybody has learnt everything and is doing everything. Everybody SEEMS to be happy. 

So WHAT'S the problem now??? 
  1. The population of the country exploded at twice the amoebic rate. Even one for two is a danger! 
  2. The supply and demand for better lifestyle went for a toss with the former falling short and the equilibrium seems to reach its destination only tomorrow (for which we all are waiting). 
  3. The people who are fortunate enough to get rights of reservation seem to have lost track down the lane and seem to become negligent of utilizing their opportunity (there are always reasons). 
  4. There are still many people who are eligible for the reservation rights and yet don't utilize them due to lack of funding and knowledge of raising funds for the same or due to simple ignorance. 
  5. To keep up the constitutional law of reservation, the institutions providing the opportunities for betterment are forced to put up a low cut off. (Law of economics). Thus diluting the input,output and the very essence of the opportunities.
  6. People have moved onto different classes WITHOUT leaving behind their actual class/caste tags.  
All these factors have put a sense of insecurity and deprivation of rights to those so called high class people. They made the anti reservation groups to re-emerge and thus Class-ism and caste-ism  back into the country reversing all the advancements. 

What's the solution?? What am I - Pro or anti reservation??? KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE.

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