Arvind Kumar is a visiting Lecturer in politics and international relations, University of Hertfordshire, UK. He holds a PhD in Politics from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He tweets @arvind_kumar__
If you have a persons let’s say a brahmin became a doctor by passing in all entrance exams are n 1st rank – all India level , and passed from say ,aims Delhi again with 1st rank…can he save all his patients who approach es him irrespective of what illness and how much critical they are in ? Answer is No….. It’s just meritocracy
We need drastic methods o ensure that casteism is killed. First, ban all caste based surnames. Second, encourage intercaste marriages by giving 50% rebate in income tax and free education to 2 children born to such couples if they are from the middle class or are poor. Third, put a final year beyond which reservations end, this can be 2150. Admissions to professional courses must be based on entrance exams with the admission list based on the average of the marks of all students subject to minimum being not less than 60%. No reservations in professional courses.
Reservation is not a constitutional right …it just a tool to secure votes form majority …a completely unfair practice through which meritorious students of general quota lose there moral &ability to survive in this completely fucked up system…
Your arguments may have merit buy you have not provided how to go ahead implement the system .provide en eg how can this system be implemented.also I donot find points based on rural-urban divide because then it would encourage state never to developed and under-developed rural region
Fact is meritocracy needs to be protected while acknowledging the socio economic divide that is faced by a large percentage of the population. It is also time to acknowledge that this divide is not based on caste alone. It depends on where a person is located rural or urban, what kind of education he or she has had private or government schooling, whether parents are educated and earning capacity of the family. Each of these factors indicating disadvantages should be given additional points eg: rural, govt schooling etc. Then one can increase the academic score of a person by an appropriate number to balance out the disadvantages faced. This will ensure that even the backward castes can actually claim merit and not be tied down with the’reservation’ tag. The current system is perpetuating the perception that backward classes are not as competent as others. To claim equality the backward castes need to give up the crutches of reservation. One cannot demand to be treated as an equal if one is constantly reminding the world that he or she does not have to compete at par as the have a right to reservation. The backward caste needs to redirect the benefits in favour of the backward ‘class’ from where it is easier to progress. Castes cannot change from birth to death, but class can. So instead of asking the world to treat us as equal we need to assert we are equal and then demand respect as a result of our capabilities and not as a handout.
Deprivation will not end until we apply reservation at an appropriate level. If giving a level playing field for everyone is the issue, how about we create more special schools like navodaya vidyalays for socially backwards groups? And apply reservation from kg to 12th? Make sure no obc/sc child is deprived of education. And then the competitive exams will be truly open and the general category will also be on board. Since there is objective evaluation of competitive exams without interviews, caste may not become a factor anymore and hence the systemic bias can be dealt with. Why are we not thinking in these lines?
Caste is the bedrock of Hindu society. No amount of education can change that. Ambedkar said Hinduism is a system of graded inequality. The dharma requires it. As long as there is Hinduism, there will be caste system; as long as there is caste system, there has to be reservation.
Clearly you don’t have a clue about Hinduism, nowhere in Hinduism caste is mentioned, the varna system is mentioned which is not by birth but by profession. It’s the Muslim rule when caste became entrenched in the Hindu society – a la divide and rule. Interestingly now even the scheduled castes/tribes are more educated and self sufficient than Muslims, the erstwhile rulers have now floundered in the face of education.
Now off you go to fix punctures.
Kindly stop blaming it on Muslims. Hinduism has its fair share of flaws too. Casteism is one among them. In Hindu scriptures and Manusmriti there are mention of castes or Varnas. Please get your facts cleared
If you have a persons let’s say a brahmin became a doctor by passing in all entrance exams are n 1st rank – all India level , and passed from say ,aims Delhi again with 1st rank…can he save all his patients who approach es him irrespective of what illness and how much critical they are in ? Answer is No….. It’s just meritocracy
What is the root cause that all the backward cast or class remained backward ?.
We need drastic methods o ensure that casteism is killed. First, ban all caste based surnames. Second, encourage intercaste marriages by giving 50% rebate in income tax and free education to 2 children born to such couples if they are from the middle class or are poor. Third, put a final year beyond which reservations end, this can be 2150. Admissions to professional courses must be based on entrance exams with the admission list based on the average of the marks of all students subject to minimum being not less than 60%. No reservations in professional courses.
Reservation is not a constitutional right …it just a tool to secure votes form majority …a completely unfair practice through which meritorious students of general quota lose there moral &ability to survive in this completely fucked up system…
Your arguments may have merit buy you have not provided how to go ahead implement the system .provide en eg how can this system be implemented.also I donot find points based on rural-urban divide because then it would encourage state never to developed and under-developed rural region
Fact is meritocracy needs to be protected while acknowledging the socio economic divide that is faced by a large percentage of the population. It is also time to acknowledge that this divide is not based on caste alone. It depends on where a person is located rural or urban, what kind of education he or she has had private or government schooling, whether parents are educated and earning capacity of the family. Each of these factors indicating disadvantages should be given additional points eg: rural, govt schooling etc. Then one can increase the academic score of a person by an appropriate number to balance out the disadvantages faced. This will ensure that even the backward castes can actually claim merit and not be tied down with the’reservation’ tag. The current system is perpetuating the perception that backward classes are not as competent as others. To claim equality the backward castes need to give up the crutches of reservation. One cannot demand to be treated as an equal if one is constantly reminding the world that he or she does not have to compete at par as the have a right to reservation. The backward caste needs to redirect the benefits in favour of the backward ‘class’ from where it is easier to progress. Castes cannot change from birth to death, but class can. So instead of asking the world to treat us as equal we need to assert we are equal and then demand respect as a result of our capabilities and not as a handout.
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Deprivation will not end until we apply reservation at an appropriate level. If giving a level playing field for everyone is the issue, how about we create more special schools like navodaya vidyalays for socially backwards groups? And apply reservation from kg to 12th? Make sure no obc/sc child is deprived of education. And then the competitive exams will be truly open and the general category will also be on board. Since there is objective evaluation of competitive exams without interviews, caste may not become a factor anymore and hence the systemic bias can be dealt with. Why are we not thinking in these lines?
Caste is the bedrock of Hindu society. No amount of education can change that. Ambedkar said Hinduism is a system of graded inequality. The dharma requires it. As long as there is Hinduism, there will be caste system; as long as there is caste system, there has to be reservation.
Clearly you don’t have a clue about Hinduism, nowhere in Hinduism caste is mentioned, the varna system is mentioned which is not by birth but by profession. It’s the Muslim rule when caste became entrenched in the Hindu society – a la divide and rule. Interestingly now even the scheduled castes/tribes are more educated and self sufficient than Muslims, the erstwhile rulers have now floundered in the face of education.
Now off you go to fix punctures.
Kindly stop blaming it on Muslims. Hinduism has its fair share of flaws too. Casteism is one among them. In Hindu scriptures and Manusmriti there are mention of castes or Varnas. Please get your facts cleared