On this blog, Namita says that Government should give scholarship to those who are deserving, based on Merit. Yes, Namita, I agree... but that is the second step. First step is to provide them quality primary education.
Even to identify Merit, you need to educate them. You can not walk onto slums and jungles and identify bright students. They don't have some HALO on them to identify that they are bright. Someone has to reach out to them, to identify if they have merit. They have to have an education that equals a St. Marys or a St. Joseph or DPS, or a Kendriya Vidhayala provides in city.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Why Reservation was created in first place - II
What Government should have done is, established a very rigorous policy, that would have ensured that only merit was selected and not the caste (higher caste), but that would have made government on wrong side of the path with so called higher caste, plus it would have needed an overall mind-set change, and a ruthless regime to implement such a policy.
Apart from that, what was needed, was also a drastic improvement and roll-out of quality education for everyone. This is something not available even today, forget 20 or 40 years back. (Did you go to a Government School? Would you send your kids to government school in India?).
These two tasks would have needed lot of money and political wish (as they say, tan, man aur dhan). Something the great leaders lacked or were not interested in concentrating on during formative years of India.
Apart from that, it is so easy to measure everything as numbers, percentages. So they said, what do we want? We want those who were left out to have jobs. Okay, how many of them? say x% of them. So let's reserve that many jobs for them. No matter what qualification they have, if they have right skills or not, they will get the job. After all, why does someone study? To get a job. So if they are going to get a job, they don't have a reason to study. So we will give them job, and they don't need to study really hard for those jobs. if they don't need to study, they will not need good schools, if they don't need good schools, we need not create them. (My Dalit friends, I know some of you have studied real hard. I know some very professional and highly successful people, and they have proven that things can be changed, but this is just for you all, to let you know why the great leaders created reservation. Because they were unable and unwilling to do right thing, that is bring quality education to masses).
A disclaimer: I am not a pro-reservation's, just trying to reason why reservation was created in first place, so don't slam me.
Apart from that, what was needed, was also a drastic improvement and roll-out of quality education for everyone. This is something not available even today, forget 20 or 40 years back. (Did you go to a Government School? Would you send your kids to government school in India?).
These two tasks would have needed lot of money and political wish (as they say, tan, man aur dhan). Something the great leaders lacked or were not interested in concentrating on during formative years of India.
Apart from that, it is so easy to measure everything as numbers, percentages. So they said, what do we want? We want those who were left out to have jobs. Okay, how many of them? say x% of them. So let's reserve that many jobs for them. No matter what qualification they have, if they have right skills or not, they will get the job. After all, why does someone study? To get a job. So if they are going to get a job, they don't have a reason to study. So we will give them job, and they don't need to study really hard for those jobs. if they don't need to study, they will not need good schools, if they don't need good schools, we need not create them. (My Dalit friends, I know some of you have studied real hard. I know some very professional and highly successful people, and they have proven that things can be changed, but this is just for you all, to let you know why the great leaders created reservation. Because they were unable and unwilling to do right thing, that is bring quality education to masses).
A disclaimer: I am not a pro-reservation's, just trying to reason why reservation was created in first place, so don't slam me.
Why Reservation was created in first place
I think the reservation was created to force open some of the opportunities. In several institutes as well as government jobs, most jobs were used by "so called" Higher Caste. And Looking at their ratio in the jobs, they were probably in selection committees as well. These selectors had some sort of bias, and were not so keep on selecting someone who is not from their caste. (If you don't believe me, it is like that today as well. Check out your own organization's operation-backoffice teams, check your finance, HR, and logistics team in India). Do you see concentration of only certain communities there? It is not to say that only one of the community is having all the jobs, but as a percentage, certain communities have found favour in certain jobs (sometimes due to someone already in place there).
A disclaimer: I am not a pro-reservationist, just trying to reason why reservation was created in first place, so don't slam me.
A disclaimer: I am not a pro-reservationist, just trying to reason why reservation was created in first place, so don't slam me.
Reservation In India
There is such a hullabaloo in India about Reservation. And what is it is going to do to the world? Why is Indian Government opting for Reservation? Any thoughts? Anyone?
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