This table is reserved Sir.
Reservations have become a very emotional issue among students and the population in general. However the whole matter now has turned into a black and white affair, of whether we need reservations and such. I would like to look into this standoff in shades of grey.
Reservations were mooted to provide an equality of opportunities to disadvantaged section of the national population. In a large country like our which had a huge machinery of inequities to keep people under control for a very long time, it is only natural that sections of the population go beyond the edge of society. We have a very interesting situation where an extremely large section amounting to a majority of the population being disadvantaged by this criteria. Distinctions can be made in terms of social and economic status.
Though it is not necessary that social and economic backwardness go together, they are usually found together. This leads us to believe that these two factors form a vicious circle which further compounds the inequities. In order to break the circle, strong and sustained measures need to be taken.
I believe that reservation is indeed a way to achieve this goal, though it might not be the only way. It does indeed have many short comings. However it does provide a good means of balancing the inequity. It has served us in the last 50 years, not without a fair amount of success - there are quite many families that have reached good economic and better social status solely because of this policy. Reservation is thus important in the absence of a better alternative.
What is a good reservation mechanism? In my view, it is one which identifies the best talent in the deprived communities which would have normally removed, and raise the hopes of those communities to work harder for a better statistical distribution. A better statistical distribution is one in which the average community representation roughly matches the demographic distribution. In more practical terms it should also be able to provide a healthy idea of society to students.
This brings to us the notions of amount of reservation and identitifcation of deprived people, which I would deal in the next post.
Reservations were mooted to provide an equality of opportunities to disadvantaged section of the national population. In a large country like our which had a huge machinery of inequities to keep people under control for a very long time, it is only natural that sections of the population go beyond the edge of society. We have a very interesting situation where an extremely large section amounting to a majority of the population being disadvantaged by this criteria. Distinctions can be made in terms of social and economic status.
Though it is not necessary that social and economic backwardness go together, they are usually found together. This leads us to believe that these two factors form a vicious circle which further compounds the inequities. In order to break the circle, strong and sustained measures need to be taken.
I believe that reservation is indeed a way to achieve this goal, though it might not be the only way. It does indeed have many short comings. However it does provide a good means of balancing the inequity. It has served us in the last 50 years, not without a fair amount of success - there are quite many families that have reached good economic and better social status solely because of this policy. Reservation is thus important in the absence of a better alternative.
What is a good reservation mechanism? In my view, it is one which identifies the best talent in the deprived communities which would have normally removed, and raise the hopes of those communities to work harder for a better statistical distribution. A better statistical distribution is one in which the average community representation roughly matches the demographic distribution. In more practical terms it should also be able to provide a healthy idea of society to students.
This brings to us the notions of amount of reservation and identitifcation of deprived people, which I would deal in the next post.
posted by adarshnat at
12:56 PM
4 Comments:
where is the next post?
I believe almost all (including anti reservation hike protestors) are ok with reservation..but the contentious issue is the amount of reservation(total 50%..doesn't that sound absurd?) and places (higher edu inst, employment, private sect) that should have reservations..
anyway..post abt it whenever u have time..
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sarvagnaani, at 11:56 AM
It is true,reservations help some people for some of the time.But is it true it will lead to the upliftment of the depraved in the long run? I am not sure.Public Funded education.....It has created a huge gap between supply and demand in the higher education sector & we all knwo what it has done in the primary sector!
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Memoryking, at 11:16 PM
Reservations have had good effects on a section of the people, is indeed true. Though quite a lot of it 'leaks', the thirsty do get it.
The deprived do get the benefits, though I do agree that efficiency of the system is poor.
I'm not for monopoly of public funded education, but there should be good government run institutes/schools.
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adarshnat, at 12:15 PM
Gray is a necessary colour. With the media painting everything in black or white (mostly black), gray is sorely missed.
memoryking: deprived, not depraved - or was that intentional?
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tumbler, at 2:17 PM
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