Reservations

I always had an open mind to reservations. It has been my belief that it takes at least a couple of generations for the Social Engineering policies to generate the benefits.

But I am not sure anymore. The main purpose of Reservations is to give better opportunities for the socially underprivileged so that they come on par with the mainstream.

60 years of reservations is a sufficiently long period to evaluate the benefits of reservation. By now, if the reservations were really effective, we should have had an eglatarian society.

Instead, what we have is more and more communities like Gujjars, not satisfied with OBC reservation which they have, clamouring to be included in the Scheduled Tribe list. It tells a lot about the state of our social engineering.

When will our policy makers look beyond their noses and think about our country?

The current game played by all the political parties on reservation issue is a zero sum game. Earlier we scrap the reservation system, the better for our country.