Saturday, May 20, 2006
The new reasons for reservations
As expressed by a fellow mate:
1) “The society in which they live (the OBC families) have a kind of tradition and culture (along with rigid mindsets) which do not allow them to strive to move up the social strata. But reservations would change this. There will be an incentive because there will be more obvious opportunities.”
Keeping the important point in mind that the said group is not being discriminated and neither the institutions they want to get in through quotas disallow them the chance to admission, I have following to say:
Now doesn’t this sound like a "free lunch". Everyone likes it. Isn't it? Sorry to be blunt but it's a shame. The society should be one of a pattern where the backward groups self-help themselves rather than being dependent on someone to carry them ahead. It's equivalent to promoting beggary and pity for anyone to be demanding "alms".
2) Next is a weird analogy: “People evade taxes. Scrap tax laws if reservations are to be scrapped for same reasons.”
What kind of reasoning is this? No law or rule is 100% effective and need not be. But then there is a difference between tax laws and proposed reservation law.
Tax laws even with their current form are doing "good" and removing them would do enormous harm. (Alternatives if any are also welcome)
On the other hand, reservations will do no good if made applicable but scrapping them would do a lot of good to our country. Moreover, there are alternatives which pro-reservationists do not want to hear. (But then these are long term genuine solutions. We are interested in gimmicks)
Spend money and efforts on bringing them into mainstream on their own. Do not simply try to lift them and put them on the driver’s seat. They will harm themselves and many more.
