A major upheaval of sorts is required to urge the
legislators to revisit the Caste based Reservation System. An analysis based on
the current social and economic status could well tell us if the law is
actually helping the poor, or if it’s in fact suppressing talent and
demotivating the meritorious.
Lifting the downtrodden is one thing. Continuing to support ‘The
Lifted’ is a blunder. Providing a large
chunk of already scarce college seats and Government jobs to people with caste
certificates (as opposed to the people who genuinely need support) is
stupidity. If left unchecked, this could even lead to proliferation of ST/SCs
with more number of helpless upper castes marrying lower castes for obvious benefits.
The law would then lose its point.
The current reservation system is obsolete and needs a revamp based on economic statuses of people. It’s sad to realise that no politician has broached this subject. It’s even worse to hear educated and experienced
people like Nandan Nilekani recanting their former stands and urging further
reservations in private sector as well. What is this, if not vote-bank
politics?
This massacre of ‘Right to Equality’ gained legitimacy for a
good cause. But are we going to continue until it turns into exploitation?
If the argument is based on platitudes like ‘The Greater Good’
and ‘Uplifting the poor’, who else could be more capable in creating jobs and
opportunities than the genuinely meritorious?
There must be other ways to uplift the needy castes. It’s a
shame to say now that B.R. Ambedkar was the only genius amongst us, and that we
are incapable of coming up with something better. We need to brainstorm and
find other routes to raise our underprivileged rather than letting our youth
sacrifice their credits won by merit.
