You ask anyone who studied in the tagged inst, he will say that …. educators don’t like people who are selected through this… !! They don’t think we as a people working together with the govt to bring this lower caste people !!! In reality again, higher caste people control this somehow !!

Is it not true that even if you have scored low marks after all sorts of opportunities in life, if your parents can afford 20 lakhs plus, you still land up becoming a doctor, engineer or whatever else you want. Are we not scared that a lot of the so called professionals in India today have become professionals through this privileged reservation route? See the danger lurking in the corners of our hospitals, bridges and buildings !!?

Why no one discusses this in the context of reservations is a matter of concern.

How many “non-backward class” prime ministers of India can you name ? Well, if they had political power and they constitue more than 60% of the population, why haven’t things changed yet?

IMHO the successive governments have been working for “economic upliftment” while denying political power. The result is that reservation policies don’t seem to have changed much.

One, enhance the autonomy of our higher education system;

Second, encourage them to collaborate with world-class institutions outside India, within India too, but most of them are outside India… ;

Third, bring in a sense of meritocracy in the selection of students and the appointment and promotion of faculty;

Fourth, create incentives for our faculty members to do more world-class research; and

Fifth, remove any licensing in the education system. We gave up most of industrial licensing in 1991. It is silly that we continue licensing of our educational institutions.

Later, Shri Narayana Murthy also adds that we need to value our technicians (the doers) as much as our engineers (the thinkers). Will this ever be reflected in the salary scales and incentives for technicians in our various industries?

How can these be achieved when the government interferes with our educational institutions and politicises education - such as through reservations? How can we reduce the power of the government so that strategically important sectors of the economy (education, defence, health) are not subject to the populism practices by political parties?

In the last page of the above article, it was mentioned, that the native state of Baroda and Mysore, were prosperous, and have superior education system than the rest of the british rule.. In Baroda, the education was compulsory and free for all..

Where do we find the discrimination and suppression of dalits in these states?

Also, i have earlier mentioned about dharampal’s book on education in india in his book “The beautiful tree”, where he states that there were more than 1 lakh schools in madras presidency alone and that almost all castes had their education in those schools..

And a party that rose out of hatred for a particular caste has been hailed upon..

Reservation has been one of the powerful tools to create vaste divisions in our indian society.. Had reservations not been there, the caste system would have diffused long back.. but because of reservations, the caste got stronger and people started grouping along caste lines..

For most of the younger generations like me, caste got introduced only after 12th std, where reservation was major criteria for entry to professional colleges..

Instead of reservation, if government had taken steps to give special coaching and training to weaker sections, their skills and capability and competence would have improved, and they would have stand in a equal footing with other advanced sections like brahmins..

Also, if we look at the present situation, there are more than 700 industrial clusters in india, and almost all of them developed “NOT because of reservation”, but out of their hardwork, without any government support..

If the past governments (mostly the congress) had realised this potential and taken steps, many of the weaker sections would have developed economically..

I think, except for narasimharao who introduced self-employment scheme for youngsters, no other congress leaders ever thought of common man..

Kindly,
-jigish

ps. Your concept about the Dalits reminds me of a recent book I was reading about Abraham Lincoln. He was in the poorest class at the time, and worked his way up to prosperity. A French scholar during that time quoted that it was all inspiring to see the son of any man be able to succeed as long as he is willing to work hard, and that this could only be done in the United States. I think the challenge is on Indians to make India the same way.