Sunday 16 December 2012

Misuse of Reservation.

Today I am going to write about one of the most renowned topics in India and that topic is government proposed SC/ST Promotion bill. The government has now again proposed the bill in the parliament in order to play a vote-bank politics in the name of augmenting the growth and helping the people of lower castes.
But what is SC/ST Promotion bill? It is a bill proposed by the contemporary government of India in which SCs and STs working in government offices will get an increment in their power and their post will be upgraded to a higher level. So this is SC/ST promotion bill.
After the end of British colonization of India, our constitution was framed in which the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes were allocated reservation as these castes were backward and had not developed due to the caste norms in India. That was a laudable move, which was pretty good and useful at that time. For a very long time these castes have been suppressed as they were deemed as inferior to people of the upper castes. They were averred untouchables. The people of these castes were treated harshly. They were not allowed to go to schools, hospitals, toilets etc. reserved for the people of upper castes. But after Indian Independence the country became a secular country, untouchability was abolished, now the lower caste people had full rights. Right to equality, right to education, right to freedom and were equipped with all the rights and things that people of upper castes had. But considering their situation before independence, their backwardness and many other factors, they were given reservations in Educational institution, government offices and many other places so that they could enhance their life and upgrade to a good level and the reservation was also implemented pretty well. But at the present time the whole India has become a liberalized country and the discrimination based on the castes has been completely abolished and debilitated from the minds of people. People of lower castes are coming ahead. Some are becoming doctors, so some are becoming engineers. But still many leaders are trying to play vote-bank politics in the name of these people. In order to gain votes in the election, they are provoking these peoples. They are using such cheap and mean measures in order to reserve their votes in the elections. Just to win the elections they are trying to divide the country into segments. Just to fulfill their whims they are trying to divide the country. That's totally ridiculous.
Now SCs/STs have developed fully. By giving them these types of reservation we are deeming them as inferior people as assistance are given to those who are weak and if SC/ST promotion bill is implemented what will happen to the people working at good posts. The next day they will see their juniors being upgraded to their seniors, what would happen to their confidence. They would completely be demoralized. In education institutions due to this reservation intelligent pupils of other castes are not able to come ahead as results are announced on the basis of reservation given to SC/ST.  If a general caste pupil secures 80% marks and a SC/ST pupil secures 50% marks, the SC/ST pupil will get admission in an educational institution. Is this a proper judgement?
I am not saying that SC/ST people should not be helped. They should be given free and fair education and  rights that other people have but when we are talking about the competition in fiels of education, job etc. there should be a free and fair judgement.
The second thing is rich SC/STs are gaining improper advantages in the name of pauper SC/STs. Is this a good thing? Definitely not. Reservation is good when the needy people are taking its benefit otherwise its a power tool to be misused.
So I would request the government of India to not play a vote-bank politics and don't try to divide the nation on the basis of castes.
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat
Jai Ma Bharti.

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