Caste Reservation

Reservation has been quite a controversial issue in past few years specially after Mundal commision report during V.P. Singh regime.  

We cannot deny the fact that in India, Caste system played a role and lower casts got less opportunities for progress. It is a cycle which follows in a way :- If I am rich, My children will get proper schooling, I can also afford the donations of Technical and other professional degrees , so my children will get jobs and so on .... Now on the other hand If I am poor, my children will not get proper education as the condition in government schools is poor and i can't afford the sky touching fees of private institutes, for the same reason they will also not get any professional degree . It will also be better for me that instead of study they become an earning hand ( which is usually very low but helps a lot at that level). So this cycle continues and rich remain rich and poor remains poor.

Reservation was brought into the system to break this cycle, and give a thrust to the economically downtrodden people which usually belonged to specific class. It was with a noble intention and a must to bring the equality in the society. But somewhere down the line, The implementation took the political turn and things got messed. But here i would like to point out that we cannot neglect the requirement to support our economically week people.

The issues raised by the people who are against reservation, are also quite genuine. A person who has got a job because of reservation but is capability wise inferior to his teammates will cause problems and cannot perform as desired. And where the requirements are critical like IAS, IPS,Army,  doctors etc... it becomes a cause of concern. Even this will be an embarrassing situation to the person itself.

So what could be the solution ??? Probably instead of reservation in the jobs it should be at the primary level in studies or basically free education for them. It already exists but we need to implement it with honesty. We need to bring awareness at grass root level about these things so that people are aware about the policies and get benefited by them. We also need to bring the government education system at par with the private education so that students of these could compete with anywhere.

 Until we do this, Caste system will keep haunting the India in the form of caste politics, caste riots and RESERVATION.