Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Voice against reservation
A lot has been written and said about the ongoing reservation issue in higher education in premier institutes. I am just adding one more raised hand against quota system.
Being myself an IITian, I know the performance level of the guys who enter in the college through quotas. High CGPA is a rarity amongst them. Failing the courses is very common for them. Most of them usually take more time to pass out than the assigned term which is already relaxed for them as compared to the general category. Except some sincere guys, most of them just try to somehow get the degree without a will to learn.
And the main basis which is cited as the provenance of all this quota system, namely economic backwardness because of which they dont get enough opportunities to get proper education, to progress, itself goes down the drain when we find out that most of them own bikes and computers in college which we, general category students who are supposed to be much better than them financially, dont posses.
I really have not understood how this reservation is helping in their progress and lifting their self esteem. Even if due to this quota system these guys can get degrees from premier colleges, it does not enable them to get good private sector jobs because everything comes out in the interviews.
Only if some politician would agree to sit in a plane driven by these pilots, live in homes built by them, walk on the flyovers erected by them...
In my opinion instead of reservations, they should be provided with free basic education and strongly competitive environment so that they can justify their admissions to premier institues for higher education. They should not be treated like they are not capable of doing anything on their own and whatever they have got in life is through reservation. It is humiliating for a human being and completely deprecates their self-esteem.
I hope that these guys only will rise up against it and join the hands with all who are already fighting for it.
The whole issue so clearly reminds me of Atlas Shrugged and the theory Ayn Rand supported so vehemently. I only hope that Man never compromises on his will to excel by true, honest and hard work and refuses to live on alms.
Being myself an IITian, I know the performance level of the guys who enter in the college through quotas. High CGPA is a rarity amongst them. Failing the courses is very common for them. Most of them usually take more time to pass out than the assigned term which is already relaxed for them as compared to the general category. Except some sincere guys, most of them just try to somehow get the degree without a will to learn.
And the main basis which is cited as the provenance of all this quota system, namely economic backwardness because of which they dont get enough opportunities to get proper education, to progress, itself goes down the drain when we find out that most of them own bikes and computers in college which we, general category students who are supposed to be much better than them financially, dont posses.
I really have not understood how this reservation is helping in their progress and lifting their self esteem. Even if due to this quota system these guys can get degrees from premier colleges, it does not enable them to get good private sector jobs because everything comes out in the interviews.
Only if some politician would agree to sit in a plane driven by these pilots, live in homes built by them, walk on the flyovers erected by them...
In my opinion instead of reservations, they should be provided with free basic education and strongly competitive environment so that they can justify their admissions to premier institues for higher education. They should not be treated like they are not capable of doing anything on their own and whatever they have got in life is through reservation. It is humiliating for a human being and completely deprecates their self-esteem.
I hope that these guys only will rise up against it and join the hands with all who are already fighting for it.
The whole issue so clearly reminds me of Atlas Shrugged and the theory Ayn Rand supported so vehemently. I only hope that Man never compromises on his will to excel by true, honest and hard work and refuses to live on alms.
