The only way you can stop misuse of reservations is to remove caste based reseration as there is no point if it is not serving the purpose.

I neither agree with reservation based on economic condition of the people…you can give scholarships because for all the successful people education was not taught…and you’ld study the same thing whether you are in a private or govt school if have the right attitude.
There are lot of rich people who can afford to spend on good coachings and tutions which normal people might not…then you cant ask for reservation for them too right??

Regarding your view on reservations based on economic condition:
You think that is not necessary because one can get scholarships and loans and still get through his education. I think you are contradicting your own argument here. Take a case of a poor “forward caste” person who cannot earn enough to give a decent education to his kids. Say, the kids complete their schooling somehow, do you think they have the same facilities and opportunities to be able to compete with others from sound financial background?
You will use the same logic if asked why you want to provide reservation to someone from a particular caste.
So caste or no caste, the handicap comes from the economic background. The handicap that comes from the caste is different and cannot be solved by reservations.

Another question to answer is ,”What do you think reservations based on caste would achieve?” In my view, it will provide means to elevate the economic status of those concerned. Nothing more than that!!!
What about the social status? What about treating everybody equally? In order to understand the gravity of caste based inequality you need to understand what really goes on there. When you visit your ancestral village next time try finding out how many people will embrace an SC knowing that this SC is an Engineer. Will they look upto him and admire him or still privately look down upon him because he is an SC. I am pretty sure the second thing will happen.

The point here is, The social injustice based on caste cannot be reverted or corrected by educational quotas like this. What is really needed is abolishing the caste system. I have blogged my views on http://politeindian.wordpress.com

Nobody was more concerned about the SC/ST than Ambedkar himself. You should read his “Annhilation of Castes.” It is very nice read for anybody trying to understand the caste system and its anamolies. I have a link to the book on my blog.

In essence there are two different problems and people are trying to solve the two with one solution which cannot achieve the desired goal. The current populist measures adopted by politicians are only worsening the real problem and are further dividing an already divided society.

So what shuold happen is,
1. Caste System Be Abolished
2. Reservation based on economic criteria and that too till the time we build our primary/secondary school infrastructure such that every kid can get a decent education.
3. Strict monitoring of these policies and periodic evaluation of their success or failure.

Once the evil of caste is vanquished then we can fight the classic class war insted of the distorted caste war.

@ anonymous 2. You must realise that by reservations we do not give MBBS certification to someone that doesnt deserve it. We only give admission into the MBBS course.

I hope you are sane enough to realise this first.

You have sufficiantly established your fondness and obsession for your own blog.

Although your blog does not point ot anything better than the billions of essays published on the same topic, you have gone onto people’s blog, ridiculed their blogs and have asked them to read your own. Well this is the lowest that you can stoop to get people to read your blog.

You would better off be writing – “This-is-what-i-did-today” blogs. In that case you wouldn’t have to publicise your blog in such a venemous manner.

@indra: Your thinking is flawed when you say you want to support reservation. Here are my reasons:

1. The current reservation of 22% is more than enough at present in IIT’s since the number of people who qualify even with reduced qualification marks are quite less than the no. of seats. The remaining seats are given to people after one year of Preparatory course. Some people drop out after the course. So effectively some seats always remain. So increasing the seats would result in more seats remaining unfilled or decreasing the qualifying mark to accomodate more backward class people. Would you really support such an idea?

2. In case of places other than IIT’s the seats which are remaining after they’re filled by backward classes are usually given to general quota guys. tell me why should a guy with a better rank than the backward class guy wait and take the leftovers?

3. Oppression for years might be your reason to support caste based reservations but seriously with this kind of atmosphere would a backward class guy be able to mingle with everyone in the institute? wouldnt this lead to seggregation of ppl into different classes like we’ve gult gumbal, mallu gumbal and such. In time we will see gumbals based on caste. How good is that?

4. Finally, how deserving would a backward class guy feel when he gets a seat in the institute based on reservation?

My point is.. merit should not go unrewarded. Years of oppression is no reason to give them freebies. The idea is to be able to provide them necessary things like basic education and awareness. Eventually, they should be able to mingle with everyone proudly that theyre deserving of what they’ve got. They should be able to compete with everyone on the same footing. This goes for women too, who want equality among men and women but claim reservation and demand for more.

If those reasons dont sound good enough for you. I dont know what else can.