No Reservations

The Almighty Constitution of our country grants caste based reservations for the so called underprivileged sections of the society, with a motive to bring them at par; if at all an inequality still exists. We are very much under the aftermath of our British Colonization, even after sixty years of semi-progressive independence. This particular debated right granted by our constitution was made when our country was a mushrooming democracy and the foundations of a secular state were obligatory. Sixty years down the line one must ask this question that is there a prolonged need to alter this so called right to curb 'inferiority' which has evolved into an advantage? Don’t you find it simply ridiculous that a particular section of the society has gone on roads and highways blocking transportation and creating violence to incorporate themselves in that sixty year old list of deprived communities? I am amused at this paradoxical situation where a self professed ‘backward’ section of the society is powerful enough to put a halt to the mobility between three major states of the country and yet they feel powerless enough to be granted a reservation?

How can the government help a financially challenged Brahmin student who wishes to pursue a course of his choice but is prevented to do so because apparently his caste keeps him at the topmost strata of the society and hence he deserves no financial rebate or merit based relaxation?
Does one get any academic relaxation or special favors in the pioneer institutes and universities for being a Brahmin or Kshatriya that it’s contrary is debated over time and again to provide reservation for the so called ‘backward’ sections of the society?
I might sound offensive and feudalist now but isn’t it a shamelessly foolish act to provide reserved seats in medical institutes to people because they belong to a particular caste acknowledged as ‘backward’? They get an admission on reservation and even pass the examinations on this birth right merit granted by the Constitution but what follows is beyond these prescribed acts providing reservation.
Can one keep the same confidence in a doctor if a person becomes a doctor on a caste based reservation ‘merit’? Can a patient be safe in a person’s hand who in all probability would have failed to make it to the cut-off for medical institutes, had his or her caste not come to his or her rescue?
The law forbids caste based discrimination as a punishable offence but what about this discrimination carried out by the state itself?
You say “they should not be treated as ‘backward’” but you yourself profess reservations for them advocating that they are backward?
Civil Services is no more the prized career as it used to be only because these reservations have untimely placed the caste beneficiaries on the positions to govern the policing and administrative system of the state which has evidently brought increased corruption and scams as an undeserving, unqualified person is bound to misuse the power given to him where he thinks that he gets relaxation from the responsibilities since he got a bundle of relaxations to clear the C.S. examination.
Abraham Lincoln needed no such reservations to become the President of the country where two hundred years after his birth, the Presidential elections are carried out not with a view of electing the superior between two deserving candidates, but between a ‘woman’ and a ‘black’, the so called powerless sections of their society.
I conclude by saying that I am a true believer in reservations, as long as they are done in hotels and restaurants, not in academic institutions!



DISCLAIMER: This post does not intend to harm the feelings of any particular caste, neither is it directed against a particular section of the society or the Constitution of any country. The above mentioned article is an expression of a personal viewpoint.