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11-05-2008
Glory
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Arrow Caste politics through reservation technique in India



It has been scientifically proved that we all have equal mental faculties and caste quota for imparting education, can only breed youth dissatisfaction in severe ways.The protest by the medical students of AIIMS, Delhi, followed by the rest of the country, is one such outcome of such disintegrating policies.The picture aired in the media about lathi-charge on medical students, who were being dragged to police vans like animals clearly depicted the Maxim’ Might is Right’. These young students may be medical or engineering or any other stream is the shapers of Indian future, the runners for the sustenance of a civilized society. But, physical torture against them by security personnel has displayed nothing but subjugation of intelligentsia by power politics. This kind of atrocity was really prevalent during the British era, when India was under a colonial domination.



But, even more than 58 years of independence, the policy of ‘Might is Right’ and ‘Divide and Rule’ has repeated itself. The people in power should not forget that India has been a land of Mahatma Gandhi, where silent protests has changed history, where it is respected that silence is the power of strong and violence, of the weak.


Desire for power has always been an important trait of political party both in theoritical and practical aspect for the management of politics.As Tielhard de Chardin has explained ” The future belongs to those who give the next generation the reason to hope”.So if the government is really ‘concerned’ about the emancipation of weaker section they should rather emphasize on the reservation, taking into consideration the economic backwardness and not on caste.



With quota system based on caste there is high probability of cases where a poor and economically deprived meritous student belonging to the general category is deprived of admission in premier educational institutions and employment in private sector, whereas so called lower caste group belonging to higher income group can easily reach gates of academic excellence just by applying his ‘caste card’, which he might not have been achieved through merit .This is simply injustice in a country like India where the Preamble to the constitution envisage Justice and Equality.


Finally, in the 21st Century, the leadership should articulate measures for total development( and not partial) based on merit, that is rule by merit so that proper skill of the citizens can be ascertained to chanellise them in proper direction and reinstating the state upon the platform of developed countries.