RESERVATION : Why or Why not?

Reservation : WHY or WHY NOT?

Reservation especially in top engineering and management institutions and colleges has quite become a debatable topic at stage level and gossip item at lunch table. I don’t know much about pros and cons of this. But as a student of IIT and as a spectator of all the happenings inside the campus pertaining to reservation issue, i just want to share my miniscule thinking and trivial experience.

It feels quite obvious that those who are not going to be benefited by this used to oppose this and those who are will in favour of. It is believed that the one who is intelligent and extraordinary will finally come to his level; he is supposed to be in. This fact is too correct, but the time required to achieve that for a son of rickshaw puller or a labour is practically more than the one of A grade officer or a successful businessman. The environment (studious and unstrained) make available to son of well established family contributes a lot to his future success. And this thing is not there to the one from downtrodden.

I think reservation is meant for those young siblings which may not able to provide that sort of environment to them like that of upper level society people, but do facilitate them in achieving what they deserve (by reducing the criteria). But in the course of this, reservation on cast basis creates trouble in implementation and also gives rise to foiling thought in others. As this is gonna benefit those also who are full-bodied and can afford everything that an equivalent upper caste can afford; but they are benefitted only because of their caste and this thing give birth to annoyance in society. And so the counter-measures are taken by govt. to prevent this from happening by introducing the concept of CREAMY LAYER. Govt. do feels that most of the poor people belongs to SC ST group or to the OBC group and thus introduce reservation to them with the idea of “creamy layer”. But due to corruption the idea of creamy layer is not getting very effective. But this doesn’t mean that reservation to be abolished. Rather at the citizen level, cognizant should be shown.

carbon credits Vs Green Technology

“India having about 18% of world population but generating only about 3% of the world carbon emissions” A fact often used these days and many articles and opinions have already been published depicting the unevenness in the generation of carbon emissions and with the idea why developed nations are not compromising with this fact and bind by the Global Carbon Emission Summit. All these propaganda is quite obvious in the realm of preserving nature and extending the human existence over the planet.

But in the meantime, we are forgetting our own cultural practices and highlighting the need of use of new technologies. We often argue in favour of granting more carbon credits as per population percentage in India. But very little emphasis is given on the development of new technologies and their employment in day to day life activities. For example: In the civil construction field, lot of building materials and subsequently energy can be saved by the use of eco-friendly materials like Bamboo and new technologies like prefabricated structures and advanced bonding techniques. All these are already developed and are executed too in some parts of India, but due to lack of awareness they are not getting much attention.

There need to be creating awareness about these technologies in different fields on more elaborate level. Instead of showing vehemence over the carbon credit issue, we should rather generate example before the world and lighten them towards eco-friendly development and eco-friendly survival.

Regional Chauvinism and Economic development

REGIONAL CHAUVINISM

India- a land which is known in the world because of its variations and richness in cultures , languages and social practices. It’s the place of origin of not only Hinduism but Buddhism and Jainism too, it’s the place where not only Ashoka and Prithviraj Chauhan ruled but the mughals like Akbar also proved their excellence in Indian politics. Having the co-existence of all such variations and there thriving in the tolerable Indian society along with the development in other sectors that contribute to the progress of nation is the speciality of this nation.

After independence, states were formed on the basis of linguistic basis for the growth of local languages and also for having better communication and development in their native language. Later on, for the development purposes also states are formed and with the formation of states, there would be newfangled ideas for the development of that region with funds coming from local income and from the central government. With the time-period and entering of avaricious people in the politics, these days demand for having such separate states are quite often. Political parties also never hesitate to have these ideas like “formation of separate states” in their election agenda to have votes. But later on, with the advent of that party in government they usually refuse. It’s quite true that there are problems in some region like in Gorkhaland and Telangana. Like in telangana, there was the demand of formation of separate state from the time of its merger with Andhra Pradesh in 1956. And even in that time too, most of the people of telangana were against that merger as the benefits from the Godavari basin and rich cultural resource of telangana was going to nourish mainly the educated and potent people of Andhra. With the time, this demand continues to grow. This time in 2004 election, congress formed alliance with the TRS with the promise that after coming to power they would start the process for the formation of Telangana. But later on, congress didn’t show much interest in that and put that process in cold box. Under such situation, the leaders supporting that incite common people specially the students to have more strict actions and processions in support for their demand of Telangana. From one point of view, this looks quite satisfactory. But the extent up to which these processions and emanation of chafe especially on roads and against the machinery shown was not justifiable.

India as a developing country and one of the fastest rising economy of the world require every bit of its resources to come in par with the other developed nations of the world and to eradicate the widely spread poverty and unemployment. Under such requirement, economically significant towns where there is presence of offices of most of globally best companies must remains peaceful. Hyderabad is one such city of the country and contributes a major share of india’s GDP. Demonstrations in or against the formation of telangana made the Hyderabad standstill for about a month or two. Economic trading worth billions of dollar was postponed or cancelled. Not only this, This has also minified the image of Hyderabad in international community as a peaceful and economic friendly city. Foreign companies operating in India don’t have to do much with such issues but if they are going to be affected by such issues, then obviously they will avoid operating in such region which ultimately led to decrease the foreign investment in india. Same is the case for Mumbai too, rising of the issue of Marathi and “UP bhaiyas” is like a massacre for the economic capital of india Mumbai. Today they are out casing northern Indians saying they have occupied the places which are meant to be marathis, tomorrow with the advent of more foreign workers in Mumbai they may start the movement against them too taking the same issue with them too. But here under such condition, i just want to ask where that tolerance has gone for which India is famous.

Silicon Valley, USA having mainly foreign nationals has never experienced such situations not because there are no such issues there but because they have realized the fact that local problems are meant to be kept local and need to be dealt with patience and peacefully. In India, having such mental thinking will take time, as there is need of education in society. Education that led to the building of judging Wright or wrong, only by knowledge of reading and writing doesn’t led to literacy. Having one’s opinion and judgement capability meant to be educated. Besides that politics also need to be purified. We have to learn the way to solve our problems(if justifiable) without affecting the operations that laid to development of nation. Because “Sufferings are everywhere, it’s not our own that is the greatest”. So do take care of others, as we normally used to see in daily soap serials and movies how these bandhs and traffic blocks led to sufferings of others.