India has been following the policy of Reservation to the under privileged since independence. The objective was to not deny opportunities to the poor and socially backward. A laudable objective.
Any system is as good as its implementation and needs revision periodically. This is where we failed. The reservation worked fine for a while and uplifed a generation of socially under privileged people. But subsequent turning a nelson eye to the negative fallout of reservations has led to the whole scheme being abused for the benefit of the few. Today, the number of communities under Reservation has increased due to vote bank politics. Also, the benefits of the reservation are corened by the rich and powerful of the so called underprivileged class, leaving the really needy to fend for themselves. Earlier we remove the creamy layer from these communities from the ambit of reservation, the better.
It should be the duty of any decent government to prevent the intellectual capital flight. By not making provisions for retaining the educated from the forward class in India, we have ensured that they all move out. We have had a massive brain drain during the past two decades, especially post mandal commission report during late 1980's and this is a big loss to the country.
But who cares as the intelligent, educated from the forward class ( I am by no way implying that there are no intelligent educated from the backward class) do not constitute a meaningful vote bank and are of no interest to the politicians?
But the loser is the Country and its people in the long run.
