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10-26-2008
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Arrow Anti-reservation protests will harm the upper castes

Another relevant example from Michigan University will reveal the largesse of the white population of the USA. In June 2004 a student of colour secured admission in its law college with less marks and was challenged by the affected white student in a court of law. Almost all universities and the industry argued in favour of the student of colour in the Supreme Court and finally his admission was justified.

Closer home, in 1902 Shahuji Maharaj introduced reservation in the Kolhapur state. The state of Mysore did the same. Still the standard of education and administration is better in south India than north India. Thus, it proves that sharing resources with the deprived does not hamper the quality and efficiency in a system.

It is being talked that reservation will stifle the growth of India. In fact, there is a latent and unconstitutional reservation in the spheres of knowledge, status, spirituality and wealth, and this is still far more powerful than the constitutional one, because human beings are governed more by social traditions and customs than by the state law. There is no doubt that Dalits and the backwards are not fit for entrepreneurship compared to Baniyas, because they were trained and groomed in this role for centuries. If Dalits and the OBCs are not given opportunities they will remain behind in future as well.

If the opponents of reservation policy are really serious about their arguments they should have opposed the admission in medical and engineering colleges on the basis of capitation fee. There is murmuring that if foreigners were given these seats the protesting students of today might have boasted that even foreigners were looking towards India.

Every society which has progressed is known for adjustment in social policy and sharing its wealth and respect with various social groups. The objective of reservation policy is not mainly to eliminate poverty but to bring the warring social groups closer to each other. Therefore, the visionary framers of the constitution of India based the policy of reservation on educational and social backwardness.

Wherever caste contradiction is sharper Dalits and the most backward castes have taken up guns and joined the bogey of Maoists, which leads to bad law and order situation. The merit mongers should realise that in these circumstances neither the quality educational institutions can exist nor investment can come to India. Who will be the final loser in such a case?: definitely the merit mongers.