Should Reservation be allowed?
Issue:Hinduism has always carried a certain embedded flaw called the 'Cast System'.This basically divides people into various casts according to their living standard,color,ancestry and so on.People in the lower cast are denied any fescilities.They usually work for a very low pay,they are ill-treated.For some ephemeral period of time they were also referred to as 'The Untouchables'.Any relegion when created doesn't have these rules in them.These merely develop over time with some 'righteous' relegious leaders making amendments to a harmless relegion.Our Nation(India) has been talking of abolishing the cast system for over fifty years now and hasn't been that sucessful in giving justice to the lower cast so far.A certain policy called the reservation system has existed where students from the lower cast are given preferance over their equivalent upper class students(for eg; a lower cast student with 50marks is chosen over an upper class student with 50marks.Also,what we call as the cut-off,which is the lowest possible score that a student holds to enter a specific college,is lower for the lower cast students.)This system was actually well made to give students from the lower caste a better chance at education.However,the governent has now introduced a new system where a much greater percentage of the seats are reserved for the lower caste.By doing this,the percentage of the upper class students getting into the university is greatly reduced.Thus,an upper class student loses his seat to someone less meritorious and this decreases the standard of students that the university produces.
Flaws with this system according to me
1)If the government was so keen on losing the cast system why not provide education for the lower cast when theyre at schooling itself and then theyre equal to us by the time they reach college
2)okay,youre giving them a chance.Theyve entered under the reservation system and have done their graduation with us.So why do they need the reservation now?..Ask them to do their post graduation without the reservation.
3)You want to give the lower caste a better chance?Give those people who cant afford education a better chance,not those who are already educated in the same way that we are.
well,i've said all that i need to..now argue on this
posted by AutoC @ 3:51 AM
9 Comments:
Wasn't the Caste system actually abolished in the early 70's? I know it is not always enforced, but I recall it was.
This is similar in the way to the US and it's minority populations.
well,if it was..then why the reservation?
Well, slavery was abolishedinthe U.S. inthe 1860's and it wasn't until the 1960's that the country actually started doing something to address the damage it had done (Civil Rights Act and enabling legislation).
I'm guessing the same is true for India. They discriminated against the lower caste and now they are trying to remedy the harms done by the caste system. Thus, "reservation" sounds like "affirmative action."
I believe the both lower and high class should have equal oportunity to succed, I believe Gov should just provide financial aid for those who can't afford it but have the right mind to it.
I always believe by my own experience that thse guys that attend school to just chill out get themselves out of it after a while.
I think the system in India wants to be fair, but if you look at it from a different angle, the system loses it purpose because ends up being fair only for those in lower class.
Yes, but how many years was the caste system only fair to the upper class?
For example, in the US, blacks were slaves or second class citizens for roughly 300 years. But now, less than 40 years after affirmative acction, the white majority wants to pretend that equal opportunity has sorted everything out and we don't need affirmative action anymore.
Very self serving.
The thing is, at the end of the day it's not too great for the country. The Universities and jobs will have to accept less capable people (i.e people who have scored less) into them just because they are of the lower caste.
Now we have less capable docters, engeneers, etc. When we could have had better.
I say give them reservation by all means! But only to a certain level.
enterence to universities and jobs should be based on merit.
Let them eat cake.
I had a cast once. Broke my ankle
Well but whne you or I forgives, is forgiveness for all the past, I can't think of forgiving someone and scrubbing his /her past everytime I feel like it.
If we mean "fair" then means the scale go equal from the time we start from Zero.
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