PROMOTING CASTEISM
Affirmative action in educational institutions has created a panic among the students. They argue that this would lower down the competitiveness among the private companies. They want a justice for other caste students.
When Dr. Ambedkar brought these reservations in the constitution it was in the hope that within 10yrs they will not be required. But now it seems that these actions are being misused at the hands of today’s economically upper class. No doubt, that because of these affirmative actions there has a lot of change in the lives of many lower caste people but this effect can be seen in not more that 20% lower caste families.
When was the last time you hear that a SC/ST or lower caste man was beaten up or harassed by anyone just for the reason that he/she was of lower caste? Although we may hear such cases, but please remember to read between the lines that he/she was a poor SC/ST and he/she was not harassed for just being SC/ST and he/she but was an economically poor person. This takes up the point that shouldn’t there be some more reservations for economically backward SC/ST?
It seems that our political leaders are so obliged to their voters that they do not want to annoy them by taking up such petty issues.
Truly, it is a curse to be born in a lower caste family in India and much worse if you belong to unidentified tribal community. It seems that the magical wand of reservations is just not doing its magic. As consequences of these laws SC/ST are definitely being encouraged to come up and we can see it in the field of civil services as IAS and many other bureaucrats. What now happening is that the children of these bureaucrats are availing the privileges of the reserved quotas and those people who really deserve and really need such reservations are left behind.
Although, we agree that the lower caste did not have a pleasant history in India but after the independence they have had enough of reserved quotas which should by now made up for the unequal or suppressed history. Today it seems that such discriminative laws are binding and not letting the situation of the lower caste to change instead it is helping the problem to survive. Because of such reservations people are willing to be labeled as SC/ST.
My argument is not anti-reservationists but I oppose the reservation on the basis of caste. Even a son of a non SC/ST but economically poor man wants to study and get a job. If the laws itself discriminate on the basis of caste, then what else can you expect from the people governed by that law.
What we need today is a revision of these laws. Some amendments must be made supporting the reservation on the basis of economical situation rather than caste. There are rich lower caste people taking undue advantage of the affirmative laws and also there are poor upper caste people who are unable to make their children study in this expensive competitive world.
When we say equality for all then we must mean it.
Talking about the reservations in educational institutions on the basis of caste is just another way of poisoning the little liberal minds of the students by bringing caste into it. In the effort to eradicate casteism we are somehow promoting it.
(Neelambari Perumal)
Affirmative action in educational institutions has created a panic among the students. They argue that this would lower down the competitiveness among the private companies. They want a justice for other caste students.
When Dr. Ambedkar brought these reservations in the constitution it was in the hope that within 10yrs they will not be required. But now it seems that these actions are being misused at the hands of today’s economically upper class. No doubt, that because of these affirmative actions there has a lot of change in the lives of many lower caste people but this effect can be seen in not more that 20% lower caste families.
When was the last time you hear that a SC/ST or lower caste man was beaten up or harassed by anyone just for the reason that he/she was of lower caste? Although we may hear such cases, but please remember to read between the lines that he/she was a poor SC/ST and he/she was not harassed for just being SC/ST and he/she but was an economically poor person. This takes up the point that shouldn’t there be some more reservations for economically backward SC/ST?
It seems that our political leaders are so obliged to their voters that they do not want to annoy them by taking up such petty issues.
Truly, it is a curse to be born in a lower caste family in India and much worse if you belong to unidentified tribal community. It seems that the magical wand of reservations is just not doing its magic. As consequences of these laws SC/ST are definitely being encouraged to come up and we can see it in the field of civil services as IAS and many other bureaucrats. What now happening is that the children of these bureaucrats are availing the privileges of the reserved quotas and those people who really deserve and really need such reservations are left behind.
Although, we agree that the lower caste did not have a pleasant history in India but after the independence they have had enough of reserved quotas which should by now made up for the unequal or suppressed history. Today it seems that such discriminative laws are binding and not letting the situation of the lower caste to change instead it is helping the problem to survive. Because of such reservations people are willing to be labeled as SC/ST.
My argument is not anti-reservationists but I oppose the reservation on the basis of caste. Even a son of a non SC/ST but economically poor man wants to study and get a job. If the laws itself discriminate on the basis of caste, then what else can you expect from the people governed by that law.
What we need today is a revision of these laws. Some amendments must be made supporting the reservation on the basis of economical situation rather than caste. There are rich lower caste people taking undue advantage of the affirmative laws and also there are poor upper caste people who are unable to make their children study in this expensive competitive world.
When we say equality for all then we must mean it.
Talking about the reservations in educational institutions on the basis of caste is just another way of poisoning the little liberal minds of the students by bringing caste into it. In the effort to eradicate casteism we are somehow promoting it.
(Neelambari Perumal)
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