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.