Is reservation the best way to ensure the enlistment of the backward classes? That is the hot topic now. Yesterday from the bus I saw a poster at the bus stand, which describes the Aiims students as followers of Manu.
Was Manu that bad? Thoughts started rushing into my mind.
I know Manu is the name that is being misused in most of the cast based political stunts. And the funniest think is that,not many people know who exactly was Manu. They know only some sentences from manusmrithi such as "na sthree swathanthryam arhasi".
Since manusmrithi and Manu himself is a huge subject I am not trying to dig it more. Lets take it for another day. Here the important issue is reservations. The 27 percentage of reservation for OBC added with 22.5 % SC/ST seats would make a huge total of 49.5 % of seats of reservation. Can this be justified?
Let's try to summarize the major points, which supports reservation and oppose reservation.
* The depressed classes became so because of the depression, which persisted over centuries.
* 50 years of reservation is not sufficient to bring them back to the mainstream.
* The backward classes are still backward only.
The youth for equality movement by the AIIMS students which got some support from the intelligentsia opposes these arguments by saying .
* Merit will get back seated.
* Reservation will affect the quality of the premier institutions and eventually will also affect the country.
* Cast system, which is considered as the root of all the evils will again come back to the mainstream and cast based politics will gain momentum.
An independent observer can see valid arguments by both sides.But one think we can easily see that reservation had not done the desired effect so far.
Anyway as of now there is no sign of a full stop for the reservation scheme as any decision against it may hit a blow on the precious vote bank.
Out of topic: "yathra naryasthu poojyanthe.Thathra devatham ramanthe" : Manusmrithi
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