Saturday, November 18, 2006

Is this the solution?

Here are the two new news about reservations for jobs in India.

1) Supreme court of India has ruled saying that Reservations should not apply to the people belonging to SC/ST families whose average salary is more than 250000 rupees for year.

2) Meeting between government and private companies about having certain % of jobs to the people belonging to certain castes.

For the first part, now minsiters in the central government and other political parties wants to have a constitutional ammendment to override supreme court's decision and make everyone belonging to SC/ST community to have reservations irrespective of their income. Also they want to come up with a law to have reservations as mandatory in firms owned by private sector.

Is this how one wants to help backward communities to have a better life? Are we providing solution to the problem or are we just masking the problem and providing jobs to the people who doesnot deserve those? India had reservations from 1950 but if we still have the same issues doesn't it mean that this didnot address the problem. Isn't 56 years long enough to realise that we are not addressing root cause of this problem?

Being a citizen of India, every one should have equal oppurtunity but should not depend on which caste they belong to. I agree that government should take care of people who are poor and need some help. But it doesn't mean that they need to have reservations for the jobs. It doesnt mean they needed to be provided with jobs for which they are not qualified for. Instead of having some reservations, better solution for this would be to provide facilites for them to have good education. Provide good education at a lower cost or free of cost. Provide them with additional tutoring help so that they can compete with people who have access to better facilities. Provide scholarships to people who cannot afford cost but need to make sure they are qualified for higher education.

I am looking forward for a day in India where we dont need to fill in information regarding my caste on the job application whether its in Public or Private Sector.

3 comments:

Sakshi said...

I agree. Economic reservations make more sense than those based on caste. It is about providing equal opportunity to all citizens, not just based on caste/sex.
I look forward to an India where your caste or sex won't matter.. I hope I live to see that .

Anonymous said...

No reservation is what I am aiming for. Not caste or economic...and if there have to be some reservation it has to be based on economic background. Govt should focus on primary education, lay the foundation better....give facilites at this stage....just as U said.
Reservation in private sector....world should learn from Indian politicans on how to drive ur country into a gutter.

Anonymous said...

Hey weekend is here...hope new blog is coming up soon...
Have a great weekend dear...might not get a chance like this again :)