Tuesday, April 10, 2007

RESERVATION

Our civilization is among the worlds most ancient ones.In general when the social evolution happens some sort of system is automatically developed to cater its needs and this was then based on the physical/mental strength of the existing individuals,which lately turned into their profession and further gave rise to what we now call castes.
As time passed by warrior and literary races started considering themselves to be superior as they held most of the property,wealth and knowledge.The races which served them were considered to be inferior though they were very much wanted in the society and without their presence social structure would have collapsed.Just because they were poor and illetrate were ill treated,the superiority feeling continued even during the days of slavery.If these races would have guided the society as a whole I suppose we would never have never fallen prey to slavery but they never bothered and catered their self interests. Somehow independence was achieved,and when the time of distribution of administrative powers came eveyone knows what happened. Anyways it was high time when the upper strata of the society would have tried to restructure whole of the social system in order to have better and much more solid social structure so that history could not be repeated.
Efforts were made and weaker sections fetched few percent of quota but that was not sufficient enough because of their population ,and whatever loss was done for centuries could not be compensated . Also its a fact that though there was OBC reservation policy but its was never strictly followed ,its was when VP Singh came to power and made it mandatory.
The reservation is not there only for economic upliftment,its totally about the participation in the governing system.So,unless there is equal power distribution this should be continued.How could there be the monoply of few races ?
Those who argue about talent should know that it can't be judged on the basis of few marks that too when there is huge disparity in the primary education,this could only be done when there is a common platform.

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