Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Great Indian Modern Ongoing Injustice

There have been many injustices done to individuals or to certain sections of society throughout history. I would like to talk about the "The Great Indian Modern Ongoing Injustice" which is ruining the Indian society by dividing and corrupting it and making things worse day by day for the past 62 years! Well you must have guessed by now what I am talking about. The Indian Reservation System or the Affirmative action system.

Here I list facts, ills and oddities of this system. I might add more points after reading a few times.
Please post your comments and thoughts.
1) It has been put in place to help certain sections of the society and was intended to be active only until 10 years after independence in 1947.
2) But politicians kept it alive till now and grew it from a small weed to a big monster (in terms of the extent of reservations). Now they want to keep adding different sections of the society for vote bank politics.
3) Instead of taking the venom out of the wealthy land lords who have oppressed the weaker sections of the society, the reservation system attacks the economically poor so called forward castes.
4) The system ensures entry into public as well as private educational institutions for certain individuals ahead of others who scored better in the entrance examinations.
5) It does not stop there, it ensures securing jobs in government and public sector organizations. Well it does not even stop there. It ensures them to get promoted ahead of others who perform better than them.
I think you can see why the public, municipal and government services and the public sector are pathetic and under performing.
6) I think though this system has been created with an intention of providing social justice to certain sections of the society, it is doing long term injustice to the Indian nation as a whole by promoting under performance, corruption and lower morality.
7) If the deserving people were given the right opportunities, they would have created better opportunities and lifestyle for the society as a whole.
8) The emergence of the private sector came as a boon for many deserving candidates. Private sector does not discriminate (as of now! But some politicians are trying to force this system into the private sector also after eying its successes.) and created many opportunities and avenues for exhibiting brilliance. Hiring a person with a science degree (B.Sc) who could not utilize reservation proved better for a private organization rather than hiring a person with a more sought out degree (B.Tech/B.E) who got entry through reservation.
9) The politicians should work on trying to provide a better and free public education system for all rather than putting this reservation system in place. There should be a time line to end this system forever.
9b) Even if it is not ended completely at least there should be a rule making sure that if a person has already taken advantage of this unfair reservation system, his or her children and grand children will not be eligible for reservations. The person who has taken advantage of this system should have made provisions for his children to get a good education and compete in the "open market".
10) People talk about injustices done long time back and try to justify this system. Injustices were also done by invading armies from the middle east as well as by occupying imperial forces. Can we ask them compensation now?
11) The real injustice was done by the land lords and even now they cannot be touched! because they are the dominant castes in politics. Only the poor forward castes are targeted.
12) One great thing is the politicians did not want the armed forces (army, navy and air force) to have reservations! May be they were fearing disloyal officers who can indulge in coups and take over the so called democratic government that they run. They want honest and moral people there! and fortunately it has been that way in India.
13)To end this with a comedic note, I think politicians should force reservation system into the music and entertainment industries of bollywood, kollywood, tollywood, punjabiwood, bengaliwood etc also. The high caste Kapoors, Khans, Bachchans, Mangeshkars, Mukherjees of Bollywood and Kammas from Tollywood are making too much money ;-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My Dear Friend, In all of history there have been injustices done and will be done as we traverse through time in this wonder blue planet. Reservations are a good thing in thought, but it also has to be followed by in deed and should be implemented in the right way.
If you have ever seen wild animals in a zoo they lack the instinct to be active because they are used to being fed at times they dont have to work hard to earn the food. Right now Reservations are being implemented in a similar way, some sections of the people who are receiving it have become like the animals in a zoo. Thought leaders like you should take the lead in educating the masses through various mass media to bring about the change.