Is Reservation in Higher Education Only Alternative for Social Equality?

Let me start with stating some facts. First of all reservation in India is created by constitution of India whose committee's chairman was Dr. Ambedkar who stated that reservation can never be vanished, it is to be reviewed every 10 years. It was created to reduce gap between higher and lower class. Total Constitutional Reservation is 49.5%.

But what I think is reservation in education is not an alternative for social equality. Why ? let me give you an example. A student of general category getting 70 percent not getting admission and a student of reserved class who got 20-30 percents gets the admission. Because the applicants of reserved class is too less as compared to general caste while reservation of seats for them is around 40-45 percent. This percentages were decided by proportion between reserved population (45.3 percent of total) and total population. I think they should decide according to the number of applicants.

I think passing criteria should be same for both and then government funding should be provided if a reserved class student gets admission based on criteria.

People are talking about equality. Where is the equality when Dalits are tortured and justice is denied to them, see the condition of SC/ST and OBC people in U.P, Bihar, Haryana and other states. One of my friend's mother didn't allowed a SC guy to enter in her house, see how the khap panchayat people treat with SC/ST/OBC.

In U.P, Bihar and some other states can you think of asking a Brahmin person to allow his daughter to marry a SC/ST. He will prefer to kill his daughter before that. N people are still talking about equality. Just because SC/ST people gets 22% of your seats general people are protesting.

Have you ever thought that how an SC/ST guys feels when he is treated as untouchable. If the reservation system is removed then the condition of these SC/ST and OBC people will deteriorate more. With the help of these reservation system at least these people are allowed to study. With the removal of this system these people will be neglected and the literacy rate will drop drastically. Reservation shall remain until the upper caste people treats the lower caste equally.

Hello friends.

The Main objective of reservation is to provide opportunities and better living standard for weaker and privileged section of the society.

Dr BR Ambedkar fought for bringing reservation system into Indian constitution to help economically various caste people who were unable to have sufficient opportunities to grow. Examples Obc, St, and SC,

After independent reservation up to maximum 20-30 years and still exists. Nowadays reservation is required by politicians to get scores of votes. Any political party never try to stop reservation because of the fear of losing the election.

Many students are not getting those opportunities which one they really deserve because of reservation.

Mainly solutions is that.

* The government should give money for St, SC and Obc for primary, secondary and higher education. And provide good health facilities. Government help only economically. No need to give any type of reservation on the caste based.

* government use high technology in the education sector for weaker section. That's where they gain a proper education.

Good morning gentleman.

A nice topic for discussion for all the youth of the country. Reservation, everybody has its likening and dislikes the reservation, but one must accept the realities. Somebody who says that the reservation in the menace of the contemporary India, they should well aware that the lower castes peoples are highly discriminated in past years, so we came across that they should given a chance to became a part of development.

But another problem of reservations is that the peoples who are from backward classes but are economically sound they are easily getting jobs not only in small scale but also in India's elite institution like IIT's and IIM's, these institute prepare their cut off for these peoples in nearly in two lakhs, so they didn't prepare for these institutions as other students do, therefore the institution find it difficult to produce engineers and managers of that level.

So lastly I would like to say that, lower class reservation can be limited but the peoples who are economically weak can't be avoided.

Hi this is Samyuktha.

In my point of view, that reservation is the wrong system in education. Students are suffering from these reservation systems. The candidates who are belonging to unreserved candidates are having more discrimination among the students.

DR. BR AMBEDKAR who was our national leader brought this caste based reservation system in education. He wrote in the constitution book for a period of this will be applicable. But our political leaders for getting sympathy on caste to get votes they are extending the reservation system.

In government jobs also reservation system by putting the cut off marks less for the minority candidates.

In olden days most caste discrimination is prominent due to unawareness among the people.

But nowadays they are having more money and they are well settled in society.

The unreserved who are coming from the poor background they are facing many problems.

So, I conclude that the government should take necessary steps to provide a reservation system to the unreserved candidates also.

Suppose in an exam the cutoff for general candidate is 400/600 and for backward castes is 150-200. Now the student from general category who secured 300 will be rejected but the other category student who secured 180 or 220 is welcome.

But now a question arises "Were the answer sheets of general and backward castes checked in different ways?" NO. Then why such unfair distribution of seats? And, who is more able-One who obtained 300 or one who obtained 180 or 120?

Exam is a platform to identify one's capability. Everyone should be enthusiastic to succeed with his own efforts, not with external assistance.

People say that very few SC/ST have become the prime minister of India till now?but the one who is selected as the prime minister is not checked on the basis of his family background, but tested on the basis of his ability to handle the nation effectively.

Therefore I feel that if SC and ST want to succeed, they must try their level best just like the general students do and should not be dependent on reservation.

Reservation should be purely on merit basis. Imagine a person becomes gets seat for MBBS purely on reservation quota with very low marks. What will happen when he becomes a Doctor with his limited knowledge. This is the game played by politicians over the years and it has been passed over for generations. Come on we are in the 21st Century. We want economic reforms but want to stick to the age-old parochial mentality of reservation policy. There was a time when so-called casteism was prevalent in India but things have changed and most of them have become an upper class and the so-called brahmins have become economically poor and they do not get any seat even though they come on the merit list because of the reservation policy. It is high time India (of course the politicians) come out of this parochial view. I have seen many deserved lost opportunities in good education institutes because of the quota system. Politicians who advocate casteism in this era should be eliminated from politics.

Reservation was introduced by Dr. BR. Ambedkar to provide equal opportunities for receiving education to those who were denied the right to get the high education due to their cast. Before independence society was divided into castes and a certain section of the society was for doing only menial jobs. They had been denied equal rights for many years. To give them equal rights Ambedkar introduced the concept of reservation.

I think in the present context reservation should be given on the basis of financial condition and the talent rather than on the basis of caste. Because today people from backward classes having good financial condition enjoy the advantage of reservation. They do not relinquish the rights provided to them due to the reservation. That is why students from upper castes with the weak financial condition suffer and they have to work way harder than other castes to get the admission in educational institutions or to get the jobs in government sector.

The main purpose of reservation for low castes.

The objective of providing reservations to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) , and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in services is not only to give jobs to some persons belonging to these communities. It basically aims at empowering them and ensuring their participation in the decision-making process of the State. Is to have an equalitarian society. The goal is to bring the unequal to the level of equality. It provides Dalits' rights to education, health, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment, and equal treatment before the law. If Reservation followed in each and every section like private, banks, corporates, government services, etc. You can see low caste people enjoying the Reservation, but there is so many citizens not merely getting Reservation, even if they get they could not survive over it peacefully, we have to include EWS Reservation but this situation is not an end to Reservation.

Hi friends,

The Main motto of the reservation was to uplift the backward section of our society whose life were miserable before independence. They needed such reservation up to max. Up to 20-30 years but the current scenario is reservation still exists and we are almost 70 years after independence.

Many students are not getting what they deserve because of reservation.

Nowadays, reserved person living a luxurious life while not reserved person working hard and living a middle-class life.

The Solution is simple, the government should give money for institution fees, give books and.

Help poor students. The Government should take care that 'money will not reason for any desired candidate to achieve what they achieve'.

Due to reservation deserving candidates of our nation go abroad to work in good companies and reserved people work in government jobs. , may be a reason we could not develop as quickly as other countries are developing.