Sorry the Seat is RESERVED!!!

Sorry the Seat is RESERVED!!!
What if you have performed even Better.......

Reservation seems to be the biggest controversial issue in our country in the last one year, as there are different views and interests towards it , so lets examine, Do we really need reservation firstly by knowing the literacy level of India …..
A survey done on literacy in India by a leading magazine
95 out of every 100 i.e.95% of children between the ages of 5-10 enroll in school
70% of these students study till 8th STD
Only 20% of these students study till 10th or 12th
Only 8% of them study at graduation level
Only 1.5% of them go on for professional study that is Post Graduation

Supreme Court of India has recently ruled out against reservation and has stayed the 27% reservation for OBCs implemented by the Government of India with reasons as following

Reservation based on caste etc... is not valid at the moment as the number of OBCs where determined based on 1931 census and not according to the latest census
Creamy layer will take advantage of this kind of reservation which is meant for people who are economically backward and do not have appropriate resources
SC has asked the concerned authorities to take appropriate steps to collect latest data on the other backward castes and also data from the latest census and to not blindly follow the 1931 report
It is also important to note that SC hinted that Political parties must not use reservation as a tool for creating and developing vote bank

A case to show why the reservation policy in not working well and will not work well to address the real issue

Short-listing Candidates for Admission to Post-Graduate Programme (PGP) 2007-09 of IIM (Source iim-a website)
Ahmedabad
A total of 280 seats are available for admission to the Post-Graduate Programme 2007-09 of IIM-Ahmedabad.
The break-up of 280 seats for various categories of students is given under:

Category . No. of seats . No. of students
..... .. .Allotted or Reserved . Short listed
General . 192 . 3431
OBC (6%) . 17 . 174
SC (15%) . 42 . 168
ST (7.5%) . 21 . 20
PWD (3%) . 8 . 14


From the above table we can clearly note that 21 seats have been reserved for students from Schedule Tribe but only 20 students have been short listed which means 1 seat is left empty due to less number of students qualifying for the said program and the seat will have to be given to a student from other caste and which also means that from the 20 students who qualified some of them may not be as meritorious as the students of other sections which means that just for the sake of reservation, may be merit will not be given preference and just to fill the allotted seats even less meritorious students will be taken in and meritorious students from other sections will pay the price even after so much hard work put in by them just due to the carelessly made reservation program.

Another important point to be noted here is that the ratio of students short listed in every section is a good example for us to realize that General category students have to face more competition and others can just get their seat without much competition because they have seats reserved for them. So the ratio of number of seats to number of candidates actually selected has to be analyzed carefully to know the kind of impact of the so called reservation policy.


It is also to be noted that reservation by the government is proposed only for professional study that too only at elite institutes like the IIMs and IITs, which means reservation is being implemented only for 1.5% students of the total students who enroll for education and we need to remember that only 0.2 % from the above 1.5% students enroll in the elite institutes and also only not all of these 0.2% are from the so called castes. So the point here is that the government is implementing such reservation for the sake of a meager % of people who may or may not reach this level of education. So here it is important to note that reservation is not required at this level of study instead it is to be implemented from the grass root level if at all it is to be implemented.
The above point is said keeping in mind the literacy survey done which clearly shows us the different level of literacy at different stages of education.

Another important point in favor of the voices against reservation is; - In no other country in the world there is reservation based on caste or religion.
Also we are the only country in the world where everyone wants to be recognized as a backward caste person and people feel proud to have the status backward caste for the so called benefits given by the government and which makes us feel poorer and backward than we actually are. Even after establishing themselves as backward mostly people do not get too many benefits from the government except a few promises made by political parties at the time of elections to increase their vote bank.

COUNTER ARGUMENT
One important point which is in favor of the pro reservationists is that a student who is from backward place who does not have proper facilities like good schools, quality teachers , good infrastructure in their schools , and availability of resources like books , tuitions, computers, libraries. And other resources like electricity at the place of stay and study, money to afford education in this inflation borne country where even getting meals twice a day is doubtful at times for millions of people, so expecting a student from such a condition to be meritorious when compared to other students who have all the facilities mentioned above, which create an environment for dedicated study and high ambitions in life, is like an irony in itself. A student from backward place is not able to concentrate because he/she already has so many other worries in life regarding food. shelter and clothing, so they don’t have an environment suiting dedicated study so how will that student be meritorious in his studies and how can one expect him to perform exceptionally well.

Reservation not the solution;-
The counter argument is very strong but we need to realize that reservation is not the solution to encourage these deprived students to go for higher study because if reservation is implemented there will be a lot of students who are from the so called caste but they are well to do and they have all the facilities but they get the undue advantage just because they are from the so called caste , so we can conclude that Reservation is not the appropriate solution to motivate the economically backward students to go on for professional study. The government must stop spending time and money on such baseless reservation policy and instead start taking more initiatives in form of financial and other facilities so that there is no drop out at any stage of education in schools.

Ergo it is really important for the government and judiciary to rethink completely about the reservation policy not just of the OBCs but also of the SC’s, ST’s and other castes on which reservation is already existing and on which it is being planned to be implemented

A Sample Solution for this problem is as follows;-
A Point based system has to be introduced in place of reservation which will answer the issue more appropriately. This system has been implemented in various developed nation successfully without any kind of bias or prejudice

There must be 200 points out of which a student must be marked and selected based on the number of marks each student gets
Classification of marks is as follows

15 marks if the student is from certain said backward caste
20 marks if the student is from a economically weaker section
165 remaining marks must be given based on academic performance and other factors
Relating to the study to be undertaken

In this way only the meritorious students will be selected irrespective of them being from backward caste or from economically weaker sections or from any other caste or region, and hence the issue will be addressed effectively.

The above given solution is just an example of how can things be managed and improved without implementing Reservations by always giving advantage in terms of points to the people who are not getting all those resources to study higher and have big ambitions, but without causing any kind of undue differences or bookings. So as true Indians we need unity and equality to prevail!!!

# The above given solution and opinions are subjective to the writers perception and information collected.