Reservations -Detrimental Or Worthwhile

"The one who deserves ,need not to be fed on the pillars of reserved quota from the time he didn't took birth on the earth. "

Reservations in India came into existence with the goal to uplift the deprived class of the society and make them feel equal.

People from different classes and castes feel about themselves to be quite different from those who do not belong to their respective community. The Constitution of India allows this kind of positive discrimination in order to bring about equality of opportunity and status in society. Reservations to the underprivileged were to be extended until they were uplifted socially and stabilised economically. Reservations with the view of helping the deprived classes to gain a better footing and avail equal benefits of an independent and free Nation was introduced in the system.

At the various governments till now have failed to truly uplift the backward sections of the society and failed to provide them with equal opportunities even after 70 years of independence. Freedom and application half a reservation policy has changed nothing .In reality reservation has failed at all fronts. Not only has it failed to achieve the desired aim of bringing the non- privileged classes in to mainstream, it has marginalised them all the more and deepened the cast system even more. More ever reservations is now used not as an effective means of eliminating discrimination but as a vile instrument of increasing the vote Bank. The 93rd amendment and the recent declaration of the government for reservation in institutions of higher education has once again stirred the anger of the youth in general all over the country. The moral ground in favour of reservation still holds good. What is needed is to formulate a well balanced policy of reservation ,which opens equal doors of opportunity to all. Opportunity for development should be judiciously distributed among all the sections of society. Development should not be an exclusive commodity privileged sections of the society. Opportunity in education, jobs and other fields of life should be equally distributed.

Present decision of the government regarding the reservation policy has angered the youth because it triggers the development one section of the society while pushing another into Oblivion. More ever the Supreme Court has put a stay on the implementation ,the controversy has deepened. The country seems to be divided into two bipolar thought streams - one supporting reservations and another dead against it.

If one beer say look at the issue objectively when will realise led the intention behind reservations is not faulty at all but it is the implication and the application of it died has proved ineffective. The way reservation has been implemented all these years has deepened and aggravated the caste distinctions in the society,marginalized the poor and the needy and has benefited only the topmost layer of the so called Backward classes. The benefit of reservation has failed to trickle down to the lowest section of the society. Moreover it has killed the spirit of brotherhood and howdy competition the desire to surge forward and to work hard.

Thus, it is time to introspect, while keeping aside degrade of particle mileage and think objectively where things have gone wrong. It seems that nobody really cares about wellfare of the underdog but wants to gain a bit of the large chunk of political boost for the next elections. Reservation should not be forsaken because ,in fact ,everyone wants the society should develope as a whole and everyone should reap the benefits of the development.

We should take a lesson from the United States in this regard. It is the most market -oriented country and has a policy of affirmative action. US universities and the government give preferences to black and Hispanic applicants in admission as, well as jobs. Yet the US economy remains among most competitive in the world. The trick lies in undertaking affirmative action by providing incentives rather than quota-based restrictions.

Nothing much has changed since the past 70 years proving that we have misdirected our energies in the wrong direction. We have successfully paralyzed are section of the society permanently and blocked their upward mobility by killing their zeal to work hard and be rewarded. Who will want to work hard if one you get an opportunity and other incentives without burning the midnight oil? Instead of encouraging this kind of lethargy, the policy should be formulated in such a way as to harness the real cream of every section of the society regardless of their caste or community for the betterment of the society.

In view of the present scenario ,it is needed to keep aside the narrow vote bank politics and think truly for the betterment of the under- privileged and honestly pursue polices and programmes for their upliftment.