Thursday, February 15, 2007

Reservations

I suppose that the only place where you find everything in the country reserved for the so called minorities who are actually in majority is India. You have government policies of reserving seats to candidates based on their race and not on their marks and pride itself as secular. In states like Tamilnadu, its even worse as the 'minorities' take more than 60% of seats available irrespective of the field. The most alarming thing about these reservations are that
1. They dont really cater to the minority people like the scheduled tribes who need that for their upliftment
2. Meritorious people from the 'majority' group don't get their due as its reserved for lesser mortals due to goverment policies

These are essentially vote bank politics. Political parties in India, promise reservations to maintain their vote-bank and hence resort to such policies. Imagine when people without proper qualifications become doctors and pilots due to reservations. I would suggest these politicians to utilise services from such kind of people. I do not intend to insult the people getting their seats or got their seats through reservation nor am i claiming that these people are unfit, but, my ire is only over the government and its policies.

In a state like Tamilnadu, the various governments have been clinging onto this policy and the present quota suggested by the centre had already been in practice here. No wonder there was any real opposition from this place while the whole of North India was burning with rage over the goverment's announcement. Only the BJP raised slight opposition to this, but soon it was also threatened by the vote bank politics and hence gave up. Such is the plight of the systen in India.

In government offices. promotions are not based on your qualification but on your caste. Most people in the top management of offices get thei posts due to this biased policy of reservation. Again i don't intend to offend them, but its only that they've got some favoritism by the government's policies. And now this politician called Ramadoss who formed a outfit which is purely based on its race, wants reservation in private sectors too. What do we call this??

1 comment:

Natrajan said...

i can understand u da, perfectly mirroring my thoughts, try to write on cricket and world politics da