Is Reservation in Higher Education Only Alternative for Social Equality?

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.

In my view, in persent situation reservation system became evil and it is escalating across the country such Haryana Jat Quota Stir, Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti in Gujarat and Maratha Aandolan Maharashtra, all third due to politicisation of reservation political parties make promises to particular class (mostly majority community) to enlist them in reservation list to only ensure their victory, actually these parties have no purpose to upliftment of backward classes. In fact this present system of reservation is based on cast which is not fair because every cast comprises both poor and rich we all know that a brahiman who fall in general category is very poor but is being deprived all benefits under reservation similarly at the other side a rich people who falls in lower cast is enjoying all benefits in fact he/she don't require reservations apart from it some people making false document with the help of corrupt officials thus the benefit of reservation is not reaching to right person there should be only one category that is poor we need to review the current system and list those people in reservation list who are really poor no matter caste and religion he/she belongs. All politicians know its bad effect wellfully but don't dare to touch it because of political reasons.


Res in higher-edu deprived real talent to get admission in good institution that later results in halt in county's growth. If govt is relly concerned about poor it should ensure easy access to poor for edu by setting up edu infrastructure in rural and remote areas rather than reservation.

Hi, this is Sreevignya. I think reservation is not perfectly necessary for higher education. Because everyone is equal in society. I wish in future, there should be no reservations among castes. Everyone is getting educated. There is no difference between the castes. So, I hope the reservation is not at all necessary.

Hello everyone.

In my point of view, it should be Banned because sometimes it also increases the rate of brain drain.

Hello friends.

I partially agree with this reservation system as it help the low caste people to come forward and show their talent. But reservation has a big disadvantage that is in the name of caste, quality of engineers is decreasing day by day. At least in the field of education the opportunity should be awarded according to the individual score. In the IIT exam the cut off should be same for every student.

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.

In my opinion, reservation should be on economical basis, not on class/caste and religion.

The reservation should be given to deserving one who registered by government of India under BPL.

The other concern is about reserving the peoples who lives in forest. A special reservation should be given to these peoples because they are backward.

Higher education reservation lacks the country in the backward side. If you give opportunities to deserving one, our country would be a developed country very soon.

Thanks.

I think reservation should not be in the education system. Because due to the reservation seat some good student may not get good universities.

Instead of seat reservation, they can provide a scholarship to the student according to the family annual income.

Reservation should be done on the basis of one's financial status rather than. During framing of our constitution reservation was given to uplift the weaker sections. But now its high time that give up these notions in order bring equality in education. Education enlightens the society, So it should be free for everybody, imposing reservation contradicts the RIGHT TO EQUALITY. This has also degraded the quality of higher education in these years. Financially weaker sections are still lagging behind of which many belong to general category. Reservation is widening the gap between SC/ST and general.

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.