Article presents most sensible suggestion on reservation problem in the Indian context. All political parties are presently practicing and incentivising divisions with only a very short term benefits. Is the present caste based reservation a passport for eternal endless benefits? Going forward do we have a future a better society? If intention is 'Sab ke saat sabka vikas' what is limiting in implementing a single scale of eligibility for reservations for the needy?
The way BJP played caste card on reservation etc., is disappointing, Modi is to take immediate step to finish caste based reservation in Centre or at least remove all those who are in the net of Income Tax in reserved category.
Look who is preaching against reservation; A person from the reserved bench of murkiers from a reserved upper caste (so-called) of maharashtra who have reserved Nagpur as the center for their timid geopolitical affair.
The word reservation is a misnomer. The appropriate word for it used in the Indian Constitution is Representation. It is not given to anyone in his individual capacity. It is given to individual as a representative of the underprivileged community. The beneficiaries of reservations are in turn expected to help their communities to come up.
Q 2: Why reservation?
The policy of reservations is being used as a strategy to overcome discrimination and act as a compensatory exercise. A large section of the society was historically denied right to property, education, business and civil rights because of the practice of untouchability. In order to compensate for the historical denial and have safeguards against discrimination, we have the reservation policy.
Q 3: Were Reservations incorporated by the founding fathers of the constitution only for first 10 years?
Only the political reservations (seats reserved in Loksabha, Vidhansabha, etc) were to be reserved for 10 years and the policy review was to be made after that. That is why after every 10 years the parliament extends political reservations.
The 10 year limit for reservations is not true for the reservations in education and employment. The reservations in educational institutions and in employment are never given extension as it is given for the political reservations.
Re: RESERVATIONS – TEN Questions and their Answers
by on Sep 07, 2015 07:21 AM
5. Reservation is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. The main aim is to achieve the active participation and sharing by the "socially excluded" humanity in all the fields of the affairs of the society. It is not panacea for all ills, neither it is permanent. It would be a temporary measure till such time the matrimonial advertisements in newspaper columns continue to contain the mention of caste.
Q 6: Should there be a creamy layer criterion or not?
The demand from anti-reservationists for introduction of creamy layer is ploy to scuttle the whole effectiveness of reservations. Even now out of all seats meant for SC/STs in IITs , 25-40 % seats remain vacant because it seems IITs do not find suitable candidates. Just imagine what would happen if by applying creamy layer criterion the SC/ST middle class, lower middle class people who are in position to take decent education are excluded from reservations benefit ! Will the poor among SC/STs be able to compete with these ‘privileged ‘students’ trained under Ramaiah and at various IIT-JEE training centers at Kota ? Of course Not. This will lead to 100 % seats in IITs for SC/STs going vacant.
Re: Re: RESERVATIONS – TEN Questions and their Answers
by on Sep 07, 2015 07:24 AM
Q 7: How long should the reservations continue?
The answer to this question lies with the anti-reservationists. It depends on how sincerely and effectively the policy makers which constitute “privileged castes” people in executive, judiciary and legislature, implement the reservations policy. Is it just on part of “privileged castes” people who have enjoyed undeclared exclusive reservations for past 3000 years and continue to enjoy the same even in 21st century in all religious institutions and places of worship, to ask for the timelines for reservations policy? Why do not they ask, how long the exclusive reservations for particular community in the religious institutions and places of worship are going to continue? The people who have acquired disabilities due to inhuman subjugation for 3000 years will need substantial time to come over those disabilities. 50 years of affirmative action is nothing as compared to 3000 years of subjugation.
Q 10: Have existing reservations for SC/STs been effective or not?
The reservation policy in the public sector has benefited a lot of people. The Central government alone has 14 lakh employees. The proportion of Scheduled castes in class III and IV is well above the quota of 16 per cent and in class I and II, the proportion is around 8–12 per cent. So, the middle and the lower middle class that we see today from the Dalit community is because of reservation. tell others why reservation is neeed
Re: Re: Re: RESERVATIONS – TEN Questions and their Answers
by janga sridhar on Jan 22, 2016 01:10 AM
iditotic thinking.......who has lived for 3000 years and is underprivileged and alive for 3000 years...use common sense....I am born 20 years ago you cannot hold what was done 3000 years ago against me.
I fully support Mr. M.G. Vaidya. I remember in Bank of India there was an Officer who got entry into the Bank on reservation basis. He took promotions from scale I to III on the basis of reservation. His son passed the 12th Std. Exam and he then got his son admitted to the Sardar Patel College of Engineering based on reservation for he had a low percentage. This everyone(who knew him) thought was ridiculous.But these were the facts & injustice meted out by reservations. The Officer was far better off than any of us who kept on making use of reservations thus depriving the better talented people. Mr. Vaidya thus has a good & far sighted opinion.
I think, Mr Vaidya is the one of his kind (associated with politics but vocal against the current reservation system), otherwise because of caste based politics, all selfish politicians either become tight-lipped or they favor the idiotic caste based reservation system through which mostly rich and powerful are being benefited since generations.We need more leaders like Mr Vaidya if we want to get rid of caste based reservations.
