Some Misquoted Intentions of the Quota........& its Adversaries
She is a mother of three.Despair grips her as she watches the whole life of her youngest child being arrogated away by a minuscule orifice in his heart. The child desperately needs a transplant.
Do you think the mother would snatch away the heart of her eldest child claiming that his brother has lived life the shortest, hence he deserves the priceless gift of life, not his elder brother?..............obviously not!
Maybe this example may sound a little melodramatic to you but that’s nearly what the Indian government has done.
Is it necessary to snag away something from one to give it to the other?
Is it necessary to uproot the verdure of one garden to make another green?
Our government is granting rights to certain under-privileged sections of the society by snatching away those of the others. No doubt, our students from the more prosperous sections think that their government could have done better than this in this competition-driven world.
The government could have granted additional seats to the reserved categories, i.e. by creating them, thereby making both sections happy.
And if some people say that the government doesn’t have enough funds & infrastructure for doing this, then they should take a peek at the funding of the education policy which has been increased almost by 100% this year for the ‘further development of the government & public schools’ which is a task that never gains its required objectives, leave alone a decent momentum.
Barring the woes of the red tape, what the government can do but keeps forgetting, is to set up more schools, both government & public, and introduce reservation for the SC/STs & OBCs to a certain extent in the public schools & then assist them with scholarships.
This will ensure a good education & a secure future for these communities from the roots itself, and will nip any question of incredibility & lack of appropriate knowledge in the bud itself, thereby saving the talent in these communities from being unduly demeaned.
But after voicing all this, I am not saying that what the students , who call their protest movement against the quota as the ‘Youth for Equality’ movement, are entirely correct. If a general category candidate securing 50% marks protests that why is he not getting admission to a medical or engineering college whereas the reserved category candidate with the same percentage of marks can, then he/she should consider the general living conditions of these candidates. Sidelining some prosperous cases, most of these candidates live in poverty, which makes it an achievement on their part if they secure 50% marks without any tuitions or coaching, whereas their general category counterpart, even after being blessed by his parents with all these facilities, couldn’t.
These protesters who have spilled generously onto the roads, conveniently abandoning their daily schedules & responsibilities, would have been morally correct in doing this if they would have been honestly protesting for their own fair share of seats in the institutions for higher education across the country (in today’s competitive age, seats are as priceless as the Holy Grail!!), but they chose to protest with the objective of getting the reservation percentage decreased back to the original level, never really sparing a thought for the OBCs. This, I think, is not a demand for equality, but a rather sadistic way of veiling their own egotism.
Should these students have continued their protests & hunger strikes, even after repeated requests of the Supreme Court to stop them in view of the number of people dying due to lack of medical attention? These teenagers do not believe in the laws laid down for them, neither do they give any thought to their constitution, which is the longest in the world, the length indicating the amount of precious man-hours that have gone into making this country a sovereign republic.
Hence, I feel that both the government & the student protesters have made some mistakes, and they should make up for it in time, lest the citizens of this country start losing faith in their constitution & democracy.
posted by bayou amour propre @ 10:14 AM
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