Reservation’s Role

I’m an Aspirant, doesn’t matter an aspirant of what. Nowadays there are so many fields of study one can follow but all of them have more or less the same kind of admission procedure in place. Appearing for a competitive exam is a must to get into any line of study in any college of your choice. But how is it relevant?

I’ve never dropped a year to prepare for such an exam or go to one of those coaching institutes before this. I used to hear my friends and colleagues and the worried parents of such kids always crib and complain about the system in place. I never could relate to what they said or feel their tension when they used to go on and on about the anomalies of the Reservation System in education (which was before) and jobs (too now!)

But now I know after several months of sleepless nights and nail biting sessions and worst-case scenario planning and of course our all-time personal favourite, praying to those gazillions of deities that we have - trying to bribe them into having our wishes fulfilled. The government argues that in a democracy it has to protect the minorities and provide them with equal opportunities, but how?

Surely not by threatening the opportunities of the rest, who are- going by the looks of the present scenario- unlucky enough to be a part of the majority. Recently during the form filling season while I was also on a form-filling spree, I couldn’t come across one college that admitted purely on the basis of merit! There were reservations left, right and centre- 20% for SC/STs, 10% for OBCs, 10% for Christians, 10% for Jains (as if it was a garment wholesale) and blah blah blah!! By the time the whole list ended there was a meagre 5% left for the so-called “superior well-to-dos” by God’s grace!

I do not have anything against any of these sects of people but if the government really wants to help them, shouldn’t reservation be on the basis of economic strength? I mean here we are slogging like maniacs since merit is our only way and even when we get a seat, that’s not all we end up paying through the nose. Stiff drill to go through for wanting to get educated!

Very soon a day will come when someone suggesting “Beta ajkal sirf graduation se kuch nhi hota hai, post-graduation kar lo Ph.D. kar lo then only your career will soar” will get an incredulous stare and a reply, “Neither do I have the means nor the mental strength to go through the whole trauma. Thanks but no thanks”

Latest: This year even Jats and Jains can enjoy reservation!! Way to go Indian Govt. !!

LOVEJ

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