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.