There is no disputing the argument that creation of an enduring educational infrastructure is easier said than done. But just because it is not easy, we cannot resort to reservation. Reservation has hardly solved any problem. Rather, problems have multiplied with several sections of society demanding and clamouring for more and more reservation. To explain the fall out of the reservation policy, here is a small example. A lad got a job of an engine driver under reservation quota. He hardly knew reading or writing because he had received preferential treatment at school and even without doing well enough was declared to have passed. He was driving an engine towards the loco shed, but was notified to stop because a repair work was going in the signal system. The notice was: Stop, danger ahead. He could not read it properly or even if he read, he could not understand. He continued to drive on and in the process destroyed the life of two or three people. In the inquiry that followed he admitted he could not read the warning properly. The officials wondered how he got the job in the first place. Well, he got in because of the reservation quota. Would it not have been better if he were given proper education instead of reservation? Lal Bahadur Shastri too had to travel a long distance to reach his school. This was because of lack of infrastructure in the field of education, and for no other reason. Today, rural areas are receiving all kinds of modern facilities such as mobile connections, internet facilities, door to door banking banking facilities. If communication infrastructure can be built and provided to the rural people, why not education? If it is not available now, it is because the governments have not made the kind of investments that are required to be made. If the country and its people are to improve, this investment will have to be made. As for the gaps that exist between haves and have-nots, even if you go back to the vedic and pre-historic periods, you will find this gap. And those who say this gap will ever be bridged, they are feeding us on lollipops.