Nickname: V

Review: Main problem here is to educate the poor and the needy. Caste based allocation will never solve the issue. It should be based on financial, economic, geographic, and merit base of the person. This has to be enforced in many levels. I feel who ever gets a certain level of education they should be doing some sort of community work for the people for at least 6 months to a year, without which no one gets their degree. This will help the poor people as well as the educated in many aspects. Everybody is selfish and we should use the selfish nature for some good for the society. Government should work like a private firm for this to happen. It will happen only when there is there right leadership, which I guess will happen if the people realize that and vote for the right person. This is kind of a vicious cirle which needs to be broken at somepoint and eventually will. -V

Date reviewed: Oct 7, 2006 9:00 PM

Nickname: cheelu

Review: I am fully satisfied with the reservation. This should happen for the good of other castes until they come forward and feel that it is ok. If they feel they are left behind, then one should ask them why they feel like that. Quality will not change. Look at the software companies these days. You will see that there are a few persons in the whole group that get the software delivered. Others make an effort, but there is a cream of people the company always relies on. This will be the case here, too.

Date reviewed: May 26, 2006 1:19 PM

Nickname: Nikhil

Review: I suppose I belong to an upper caste. I never really knew about castes, about my caste or what it meant to belong to an upper caste until the first bout of agitation against reservations broke out nearly 20 years ago. Still I've never asked what caste my friends belong to. You cannot fight discrimination by reversing the direction of preferential treatment. Prejudice begets prejudice and two wrongs do not make a right. The Government is relying on statistical demographic evidence collected in 1931. The reason for lack of the reserved class students in premium institution reflects on the poor quality and availability of public funded education in India. Those who can afford it, choose better, private schools. Instead of growing the pie, or even allowing private investment in education to meet the growing demand-supply gap, the government is indulging in divisive politics to split the pie. Next on their agenda is reservations in private companies, merit no bar.

Date reviewed: May 25, 2006 12:10 PM

Nickname: Neta

Review: Many professors in the goverment engineering colleges belong to the upper caste. I have heard incidences from my friend that inspite of completing assignments on time and with higher quality, the professors would give the students from lower caste much lower grade than the grades given to the students of higher caste. This was happening to such an extent that the state goverment had to give a permission to start private engineering colleges. Even after reserving seats I don't think we would be able to do justice to the lower caste people. I don't support reservations but how do we find solution to the descrimination which still exists in many engineering and medical colleges ? The discrimination also exist in some private & public sector companies.

Date reviewed: May 25, 2006 9:19 AM

Nickname: Smart IT Guy

Review: It has been widely documented and reported that indian's caste system had resulted in an average national IQ of 81. It is believed that the under-development of lower caste contribute a lot to the IQ average. Now that upper caste resist improvement for the lower caste again. Hence, the national will not get improvement for quite some time to come. I wonder whether MNC ever check the IQ quota before they outsource. Check on the "IQ and Wealth of Nations" on internet. You will get a clue.

Date reviewed: May 25, 2006 4:25 AM

Nickname: hari

Review: Its ironic that the indian government is trying to rupture the wound which is supposed to be healed. As commented by many, the grass root level is still the same, and reservation hasn't served any purpose. increase in the reservations will hinder the careers of all the worthy individuals, who would otherwise get better education and better jobs.

Date reviewed: May 24, 2006 2:05 AM

Nickname: Anand

Review: I agree with Gautam 100%. Improve the basic education and provide all the facilities for the OBCs to come up in standard so that they can compete with the General Quota Students. This is a ploy by that Moron Arjun Singh. The whole Congress Party and other Parties are keeping Mum. There's another politicians, Moron KamalNath, who is even talking of reservations in Private Industry and even coercing the Indian Industry into submission. We need a revolution, not a silent one, but a non-silent one. These folks need to be taught lessons which they understand.

Date reviewed: May 23, 2006 9:11 PM

Nickname: Krish

Review: I agree with all the comments except that reference to the "3000 year old caste system". It is only a 300 year old thing born during the European/British colonial rule., which suited their divide and rule concept. Before their arrival there was never any discrimination based on the caste. People were free to do what they were good at. There were only 4 major sects based on the profession. Within each there were sub-sects - say goldsmith or blacksmith etc.

Date reviewed: May 23, 2006 9:08 PM

Nickname: Gautam Pamula

Review: The only solution is to improve basic education. Provide financial assistance to needy students. Give loans. Make the student feel responsible and put effort to reach goals. Kinda said that they would rather make reservations than provide financial assistance to needy students.

Date reviewed: May 23, 2006 7:37 PM

Nickname: Atul

Review: It is clear that none of the politicians supporting the reservation ever appeared for a competitive exam. They think that access to private tutor or an air conditioner at home is sufficient for any student to pass those exams and lack of these facilities result in backward classes not able to compete. If that was the case, there would be no competition. As there are clearly more students in India able to afford private tutors or schools than the no of seats at IITs/IIMs or medical schools. Politicians needs to understand that key to success is: hard work, will power, access to basic facilities and strong fundamentals.

Date reviewed: May 23, 2006 6:10 PM