What is the most widely debated topic in our country today? Its not Rakhi Sawant’s clothes……and its not Abdul Kalam’s hairstyle!It is definitely the government’s decision to implement 27% reservation in the Ivy League institutions of the Indian educational system. Frankly the way I see it, there is absolutely no cause for debate. Is it not apparent that this move will hopelessly suffocate the “equality” it is supposed to ensure?
I firmly oppose the move to reserve seats.
Right, at the outset, I must confess that I’m not a very political sort of person. I’m not going to curse Arjun Singh or bore you with long tedious lists of the events leading to this whimsical Act being passed. What I will say is this-this move is affecting the pride and glory of our internationally acclaimed IIT’s and IIM’s. It is an act of infiltration of politics right down to the grassroots level! The meritorious students will have less than 50% of seats to apply for, because apparently the members of the OBC’s can also contest in the general category. Which, incidentally, is that category which includes us ‘privileged classes’.
But if anything, this whole quota fiasco has revealed how totalitarian our ‘democracy’ really is! Beating up helpless students just because they are demanding their rights? I mean, we are a free country right? That means we can starve or sit wherever we want to, wave little placards and burn effigies, without the threat of policemen trying to drown us or burn us….but apparently, that is not our prerogative….and these hapless victims are the brightest future citizens of our motherland….being caned without mercy, all because they demanded the equality of opportunity promised to us by our forefathers in the constitution. The future looks promising, after all-a steep rise in suicides because getting into IIT is the main aim of so many young students, doctors and engineers who will probably talk in their mother tongues, increased forgery of fake documents, droves of students who will pursue their education and careers abroad. And really,who can blame them? This law will allow the rich to bribe those in power and allow for concessions because they are ‘underprivileged,’ thereby becoming just one more source of corruption….and they say they are going to expand the number of seats in all colleges…that will just dilute the quality of the students and the reputation that our system has earned will be undermined terribly.I think a more sane approach would be to include this move in primary schools, as free and high quality education, to ensure that all children get the same oppourtunities, which is really what the constitution makers had in mind all along.. Suddenly putting an OBC student into an IIT, on basis of his birth, it would be like expecting a small boy who can just about swim,to compete in the Olympics.Most importantly, all students and doctors and the country in general, have lashed back. The people have spoken, the verdict is out. If the law makers we have trusted wish to truly uphold the noble ideals of our constitution, they should first give the people the voice they deserve. Who inspires you, Mr Arjun Singh-Ambedkar or Hitler???
Meghna Srinivas
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