Thursday, May 25, 2006

Reservation in India - III

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.

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