Wednesday 20 June 2012

The Great ''Quota'' System

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One of the most harrowing phase of our lives, the college admission process, is finally over for most of us. I think we all unanimously agree that the most annoying element in this process was the quota system. Yes, I know that there are people who got in solely on the bases of quota, which saved them from a very grave crisis.

As we all know, reservation is on the bases of religion, domicile, castes and also for freedom fighters’ descendants. It’s amply evident that today, if you don’t belong to a religion, cast or domicile having a quota, you will not be able to pursue your dream career from your dream college. Unless, you are a scholar who gets sky high marks, which, most of us aren't.

Caste discrimination nonsense:
Reservation based on religion is blatantly and visibly unjust, the logic is baseless. Just because the founder/ trustees of an institution are of a particular religion, does not mean that those religions will get a chance to aim high and achieve their career goals and the others won’t. I won’t waste much of my time trying to prove this system unjust, as it visibly is.

Domicile system:
Coming to domicile, which, again snatches opportunity out of the hands of students living elsewhere. The reservation blocks the seats, cut offs shoot up. They miss their admission. In short, if you want to go outside your state, for better education, the quota system will do everything in its power to obstruct your way.

Freedom Fighter Quota:
Next comes the quota for the descendants of freedom fighters. If your great grandfather fought for our independence, and you spent your semesters idling away on the couch in front of the idiot box and studied just enough to get in with the quota, you very well deserve everything! Well, that’s what this quota essentially says.

The Most Famous....
Now that we have successfully studied and criticized each of the quotas’ criteria, only one criterion is left. The quota, which seems to be justified (well, more or less), the Schedule Tribes (ST), Schedule Casts (SC) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation; The “big guns” consuming most of the seats in an educational institution or government jobs. 49.5% precisely! (15% for SC’s, 7.5 for ST’s and 27% for OBC’s)

More about these quotas, and their adverse effects (On both, the open category and the backward classes’ people) in our next post. 


Stay tuned...

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