SC/ST/OBC Reservations in specialised courses
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It has been a raging debate during the past couple of weeks wherein the latest moron of a minister Arjun Singh has gone ahead to propose that the educations such as the IIT, IIM and IISc, to name a few, should have reservations for SC/ST/OBC candidates. While I truly understand the need for furthering the cause of underprivileged classes of society by due representation I am totally against minister toying with institutions of such a high stature just to further their political vote banks. It would be more appropriate to maintain the status quo on quotas per se. With the current system these classes are given due opportunity upto graduate degree levels and sometimes further in particular institutes. Now if they are truly capable and have made use of these resources they should be given able to get into these prestigious institutes by nature of merit rather than caste or otherwise. If the government truly wants to help them out here they should provide these students with something along the lines of interest free loans on education fees etc. This will truly help these students.
All that said and done we Indians have probably the best minds in the world to work around the system. Once these quotas are in place be assured that a parallel industry of sorts will rise up from the earth for fake OBC certificates etc, which are available even today. There is absolutely no way of checking the autheticity of these certificates and that itself should discredit the introduction of such a quota based system at these institutes.
I hope one day we can have our institutes proclaim on their prospectus' that they do not discriminate on bases of caste, color, religion etc as all American institutes do. Ironically all American institutes also go ahead and try to maintain black/white, men/women, local/alien ratios.
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I challenge the concerned jokers to go ahead with 50% Reservation for not only students but also for teaching staff. Its better that Government builds one more IIT and IIM and call them RIIT and RIIM (R stands for you know what) and let others live in peace and maintain their standards. RIIT and RIIM may be put under AICTE for added glory. It will be wiser for the government to offer the best of education from primary education and make them face the world rather than give them feel of artificial security by reservation.
Naam Arjun Raknewala sab Yudh nahi jeeet saktein
aur IIT IIM koi Kurushetra bi nahi hein
Na is Arjun ke paas koi Krishn bhi hai
Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya Sathuskratham
Dharma samsdha banarthaya sambavami yuge yuge
Tora Tora Tora
IITs and IIMs will remain Institutions of the government by the government and for the government. One day MHRD may passa resolution stating that each MP is entitled for an IIT or IIM seat as the MPs are serving the nation. On the contrary take the case of BITS Pilani. In the year 2000, BITS Pilani put up a campus at DUBAI. In the year 2004, BITS Pilani commissioned a campus at Goa. In the year 2007 BITS Pilani is spearheading a campus at Hyderabad. Name one IITor IIM which broke the governmental shell and did something like BITS Pilani could do. Every one knows the famous IIM and IIT wanting to set up a Sing apore Campus. Well the song was over long back. We are left only with the National Anthem.
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