Originally Posted by
raj2rif
I think for our short term gains and to some extent, a little narrow approach we are missing the big issues.
Mr. Vijay has made a very good point about a persone scoring 70% not getting the admission and one half of that % getting it just because of the fact that his community falls under reservation category. I would go little deeper into the problem,
Tomorrow your loved one is struggling to survive in a hospital, and you have a doctor who came to medical college not on his talent but on the basis or reservation, treating your only child, or your wife/husband or any loved one. How confident you would feel at that time and God forbid if that loved one does not survive, probably the supporters of reservations would never forgive themselves. Imagine an incompetent Engineer designing the Bridge, over which a whole lot of traffice needs to pass over daily, and bridge collapses, don't blame your self then because you supported the reservation but the government as we always do.
We have landed up in this situation, because we thought of today and not for the future.
I know many people will say, that they are trying to secure the future of the young members of the community, so that they can get the jobs and admissions in best institutions, not on competence but on reservation. The concept itself is wrong. If you give a fish to a person, you feed him once, if you teach him how to catch a fish, you feed him for life time. Here we are proposing to our younger generation, not to work hard, assuring them that reservation will see them through.
The best thing for any one, is not to do that thing to others what he/she did not like when others did to him/her. Mr. Mann did not like people getting the reservation as a student, but now want to do the same thing as per his post. This is giving in to the wrong things.
Please God's sake think of the larger issues. Our ancestors fought for the freedom of our country. Many of them gave their life for the cause. They all wanted to make it a great nation. What have we done to this nation. We have divided it on the basis of caste, religion and regionalism. Reservation is the cancer for any society. Let us not embrace it just for short term goals. Teach your children to take up the challange. Let us all unite against reservation of any kind. Let us all unite to create facilities in rural areas. Let us build the bridges among the communities. It might not come over night, but if we strive, it is only a matter of time that we would definitely succeed.
The most important thing is to get every one two square meals. Let me tell you, once one gets two full meals, Happiness is only the state of mind.
I hope you understand my objection/reservation on supporting the policy of reservation.