Supporters of Arjun Singh’s proposal for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs are offering the example of South India. The progress and development in the South, they say, is because it opened up a world of opportunities for a whole mass of subjugated people. In other words, fresh reservations should be welcomed because of its success in the South.
Questions: Is this true? Is South India what it is because of quotas? Or is this just a facile argument that the pro-reservation-wallahs are using to justify their objective? Are educational institutions in the South better off because of reservations or are they worse off?
Also read what Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on the subject:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060505/asp/opinion/story_6177300.asp
Yes… reservation is the reason for the South’s success..
All of us went out of India to study and then came back.
Reservations in the South looks so romantic only because it has been around longer. In reality, they have ruined our education system forever. We glamourise the IITs, IIMs and the IISc but they operate in a rarefied atmosphere. What about our Universities which is where the vast majority of students go and where reservation is rampant? They have become intellectual cesspools, where classes are not held, where “quota” teachers cannot teach, where no academic activity worth its name takes place, where everybody is terrorised because of fear of the mafia residing on the campus. Vijay is right. It’s because of reservations so many of us went out of the country.
yeah, if you can call giving the son of a politician a ‘free’ seat, but the an average middle class guy a payment seat, it sure is.
There has never been evidence to suggest it. Just another canard as usual.
Please read these comments to know how important it is to stop the reservations and get rid of the caste system.
”We are the only nation in the world where people fight to be called backward rather than forward.”
– Narayan Murthy
“India is ready to discuss racism as long as it is in other countries, but not caste in its own backyard.”
– Dipankar Gupta, professor of sociology , J.N.U. New Delhi
”In place of appealing for removal and abolishing this old curse on India, all the Indians have been shamelessly accepting the caste system imposed upon by their Religion. People are fighting against the reservation quota. Is there a single sensible person who wants to fight against the caste system which is the main reason for the quota ? ”
– Damien Rebello
Caste conscious lunatics and live in this lunatic asylum, of course against our will, and ‘blessed’ with an eternal curse of associating with the insane. The Indian caste system is pointedly diabolical. It is a real curse.
– Swami Vivekananda
Year 2006 : Indian newspapers carry daily stories of atrocities against Dalits or young couples being killed, sometimes by their own families, for daring to fall in love with someone from another caste. The caste based communities in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have militants to terminate people belonging to the other caste. In spite of all this the Indians think that they are making progress.
– from DailyNews U.K.
Nobody is saying that the caste system should be praised, for it has indeed degenerated India’s self-pride.
– Francois Gautier
Without question, caste system is the curse for India, and it has humiliated millions through the ages. Caste is India’s sorrow, the apartheid that makes Indians hang their heads in shame. Caste serves as the prime reason for conversions even today.
– Barbara Crossette
So you see to what extent this disgraceful caste system has taken us? Our political parties trade on it, our governments use it, our police connive at it. There is a nexus of criminals, police and government, as everybody knows, and we suffer.
– Shri Parthasarathi
India’s real curse lies in the fact that, 57 years after Independence, people continue not only to face daily injustices, but they can be murdered, raped and viciously humiliated merely because they have tried to break out of the caste trap to assert their rights as equal beings.
– (Human Rights Report)