Is Reservation in Higher Education Only Alternative for Social Equality?

I am surprised why people oppose reservation for SC and ST. I think the biggest reservation in India is being enjoyed by the so called upper castes. According to me inheritance is the biggest reservation. The children of rich and powerful gets the same automatically without appearing in any exam. For example the son of a priest automatically gets the rights of the temple from his father to earn his lively hood without any competition. The children of Industrialist, big farmers, landlord, traders, politicians, exporters etc. Gets the same which is only reserved for them. Actually the biggest problem of the persons who opposes reservation lies with their own people who captures 80% of Indian economy, but they cannot fight with them because they belongs to their own caste. So they find an easy way to criticise by criticising reservation Before.

As the my point of view reservation is only valid for those who are financially weak to take good education.

Because it is not necessary that every reserved candidate doesn't have the weak family background.

We all humans have the same kind of brain. So which kind of reservation they need?

Reservation not applied by the categories basis in any kind of competition exams or jobs.

Actually if any particular society really want to prove their existence in the country then why don't they work hard for it like the non reserved category aspirants do. If they are really eager to see the upliftment of their community so they should give a good direction to their urge for getting into good positions and their free mess making time.

Instead of making loss of crore of rupees they should go for good classes and prove themselves in front of the country that without reservation too they are utmost capable for the country and can finally boil down to become an asset for the nation rather than becoming a liability for the parliamentarians.

In my view, it is now high time to abolish the rule of caste in education. Education is the need of all, from rich to poor, from lower caste to upper caste. Being government of all it is the duty of govt to educate all but when the matter of higher education comes, it should be purely on merit basis. Due to the introduction of caste, many eligible candidates are not getting the opportunity. So that our country is loosing many great ideas.

Reservation should never be a part of education system. Admit to the universities should be given only on the merit basis. To assure social equality, backward classes should be provided assistance in the form of redemption from payment of tuition fee, should be provided with free books and hostel facility in the campus.

A general category student finds it very difficult to get the admit in government colleges, to find government jobs etc. As a result, students apply in foreign universities and prefer to work over there which we call as BRAIN DRAIN.

A category student continues to enjoy the reservation even though his family income may be more than 7L per annum.

Hi guys, I am Suraj.

So far want I found in the discussion is most of us are in favour of non-reservation admin policy which will never going to happen because it's not just about you and your SC/ST friend who is gaining advantage over our policy, there are many others who still need to be uplifted and the government facing difficulty to find out who the real needy is and this won't happen until we abolish poor and illiteracy. The education system has to be changed and categorising people based on caste should be removed because we never know the one who missed getting admission in universities based on caste system could have become and this's the major factor which is dragging the development of our nation back. If at all we want to fight against it there are many who are waiting to destroy the peace and create a civil war in our nation which we are afraid of.

In the 21st century when we are dreaming of INDIA as a "DEVELOPED NATION" reservation in higher education should be removed. For social equality the government can give facilities and incentives in other aspects but not in education. As a result of reservation, many talented students are not getting a chance to study in many reputed institutions this ultimately results in the loss of human resource for a nation. Selection in higher education should be purely on merit basis. We are thinking that by giving reservation we are maintaining social equality but I completely oppose this idea I think we are creating inequality because we are giving a chance to a low standard reserved category student to pursue higher education simultaneously causing the loss of talent of a high standard unreserved category student.

Reservations should be provided to the deserved. In reserved classes too, there are to categories-labour class (those still behind & are lagging) & service classes (whose ancestors are privileged from this in 50 s & 60 s & well off). The ones who get it are the service classes, thus labour class still lags behind. There are also many seats vacant for reservation unoccupied, where as many general classes are rejected as their seats are full. I feel education should be made free till 4th std for all, then let all compete together to find the place in the mainstream. Thus reservations should be based on their income status and hence should be given scholarships for same, rather than all these turmoil.

Reservations should be provided to the deserved. In reserved classes too, there are to categories-labour class (those still behind & are lagging) & service classes (whose ancestors are privileged from this in 50s & 60s & well off). The ones who get it are the service classes, thus labour class still lags behind. There are also many seats vacant for reservation unoccupied, where as many general classes are rejected as their seats are full. I feel education should be made free till 4th std for all, then let all compete together to find the place in the mainstream. Thus reservations should be based on their income status and hence should be given scholarships for same, rather than all these turmoil.

My opinion.

Reservation should be banned in education. Because of reservation in education, talented students can not get more chance. SC/ST/OBC students get more chance than the general cast students. In not only education in also government sectors they get more chance than the others.