“An education is the passport to the future , for tomorrow belongs
to those who prepare it for today”.The future of a country is said to depend upon
how the citizens are educated all over the country, a good education system, makes a
country a stronger and developed ones. The education is must and should be
acquired by every citizen of the country,regardless of caste, gender, wealth etc.
The ways of education has changed a lot in past few centuries. It
had changed from “Gurukul” system to “classroom education” to “online education”
over the centuries. I really appreciate the education system in India to certain extent.
Over the years, there have been some serious issues going on like reservation system
for jobs, getting seats in the colleges/universities, based on the castes. It is not fair to
allot seat or provide job on the reservations, because no person is born with talent
everyone gets talented as they grow, in the name of the reservations based in the
castes there have been many exploitation going on in the country and the society.
Even the government knows about this too… still it hadn’t done anything from past
4-5 decades.
According to constitution amendment, article 15 provides
reservations of seats to SC, ST, OBC students in government-aided educational
institutions only. This country has lived with the caste based reservations for over 5
decades. As till today, government had provided in total 49.5% of reservation to the
SC/ST/OBC (22.5% for SC/ST and 27% for OBC )category. In this whole process there is
other category who is really struck/suffering in between who really needs more
reservations in all the fields. There are people in the general category who are
poorest then poor who end up not getting seats in proper colleges and better jobs
because they belong to the general category. And there are many people (not all)
among SC/ST/OBC who are richer and still avail all the facilities from the government.
I don’t understand that why this government isn’t understanding this serious issues.
Either it has to keep equal reservations to all the categories else remove all the
reservations completely, let the talented ones regardless of caste,gender
creed,community get the jobs,seats in the colleges.
The government should classify the people who are actually poor, actuall rich,
Should take actions on those who are availing all the facilities who aren’t supposed
to.. there are many people belonging to the general category who fights for single
meal who has dreams of becoming something I their life, but that child is holding
those dreams back to itself afraid of not getting proper higher education,jobs and all.
Let me tell you all something which took place in my life too, after PUC I had written
the JEE mains exams , even I belong to general category only I secured somewhere
around 30 marks ,but I wasn’t qualified that exam because for us, the eligibility
marks were of 70-80 at that time, on the other side, my friends had secured same marks 29-30 but still they qualified for exam, because they had very less eligibility
marks of their SC/ST belonging. Then in that case real talents have no future at all?
And some students who did lots of preparations day and night still end up not
qualifying, they start loosing hopes on their life.
The process of integration of India , which our great ancestors envisioned
hadn’t stopped yet!. The whole reservation system is one of the primary motors for
the migration of talented youngsters from India to many other foreign
countries.how about creating a income-based economic scholarship system which
supports children of all castes and religions whose parents do not have enough
money to send them to schools and colleges? The affirmative action would not
create a sense of alienation among those students who have high grades and yet
cannot make it to the colleges they aspire to join. Why are we supporting those rigid
caste lords who beat their youngsters because they fall in love with someone of
different caste or one who belongs to a different religion of India?
Caste system had some advantages in the past education system such as:
All the people were given jobs according to their capability
Those people used to to transfer knowledge to their children.
So there will be a particular caste expert in a particular task.
There will be lack of competitions for the jobs among the people.
But in today,s world it had been misused in many of the ways such as:
Our four fathers created this caste system to uplift themselves among all the
people but today’s generation ruined it by bringing untouchability, no inter caste
marriage, dominancy etc.
Now whenever topic of caste comes, it is always followed by reservation
Reservation is then followed by politics which I again followed by caste and at
the end caste system rules.
Current situation of country is the result of caste system followed all these
decades
Higher education in India is based on the principle of exclusivity, there is no
effort for Universalization of education In this area, mainly because it is a
specialization of particular fields. The entry to this gateway is through an entrance
test and it depends on the merits , again there comes the reservation which becomes
headache to many people. The performance in the entrance exams becomes the
yardstick for this gateway.this is again implied by proportion of Dalits and minorities
that have the access to higher education. Well, I have to say that there are many
many families all over the country who really needs the reservations and support
from the govt even though they belong to SC/ST/OBC.
We cant remove this reservation fully for all the categories.
Removing reservation in overall means the people who doesn’t have money or power
will have no means to achieve betterment. Those who have money can study in a
good institution,get better coaching and top in exams. But there may be better
talented people among the poor. The government have the responsibility to each and
everyone. Recently the government had started “casteism free India” program..many people given their views on this program. Well, there are some of the ways
which we can resolve this serious issue in the country in the field of education.
Reservation should be considered on the basis of poverty. The rich are misusing
the benifits of reservation through caste system
Please look into that all the facilities from the govt are made available to actual
poor people not to some random people who wants that facility.
Reservations can be based on the economic terms. Those who have money say
10 lakh per annum , then why do they need reservation even if they belong to
SC/ST? Also there are people belonging to general category who actually needs
reservation.
Once a common criteria for the selections/merit is used then this issue of
reservation might be resolved to some extent.
And competitive exam fees must be same for all the category students, there’s
been huge injustice taking place to general category students in that field. If
there is no fees for SC/ST then general category exam fees must also be
exempted
In exam results also no category should be made for SC/ST?general, same cutoff
should be given to all the category students
This reservations have benifited only a small section of people.
It has became a political game and people who get this opportunity do not get this at
all. People who have money and power get fake backward class certificates and avail
the facilities.at all the levels of facts , this is true and it becomes nothing else than a
sheer attempt to grab the opportunities of general category people. The government
should wake up at least now, where is the definition of for the people, by the people ,
from the people making sense nowadays? Its been almost 5 decades we this
exploitation is going on in the country, at least now wake up and rise the issue all
over again. If this issue is left unsolved/untouched then it is going to be very serious
issue to the next generation. Let the actual people who needs facilities get them all
as if it is their fundamental right. Do not ever make misuse of this reservation facility
to make your things done. Have some humanity if you all are humans , think of other
people who fights for single meal of food… roams all over the city even thought
holding top ranks in the institutions just because they don’t have reserved seat under
their category.
I am not up against any caste, religion or anything.. I whole
heartedly respect every caste/religion regardless of anything. I belong to the general
category, I know how the exploitation is going on in the name of reservation even
you all reading this knows about this but no one wanted to make the changes,
So I thought why can’t be source of change. As we all know/say.. unity in diversity
right? Let us all unite this time again and resolve this issue once and for all.
Thank you for reading……
“Ban reservations based on castes”
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