EK CUP CHAI

I happened to find a Prospectus for admission into Medical Degree and Diploma course in Andhra Pradesh! For the entrance examination ALL MBBS students of AP are allowed to write an exam. ‘All’ has a certain significance here. After the rankings of the students are released the admission are given based on the following roster system:

The first seat goes to OC (OC meaning ALL here), the second seat goes to a woman who tops the SC Woman category (irrespective of what rank she gets). The third seat goes to the next OC Woman (if just she simply tops all OC women) and the fourth seat goes to a BC-A Woman … and on and on

So in a university which hires 30 top students, we have a great combination of people belonging to different castes. Wow! National Integration! But if you see carefully this is done in the pretext of Competition (to filter able students), and Socialism (to give equal opportunity for all classes of society)! Wow Again!

Also in the same class we have only 20% people (irrespective of what their caste is) who should have been in the top 30. Others (as long as they have used the reservation) have come by the virtue of being born in a backward community. So is the term ‘fair-competition’ justified?

Yes. Bias happens in the name of caste, religion etc. But if a person belongs to a certain community it nowhere means that he/she has had to undergo certain bias. May be the person’s parents/grand parents have used the same reservation system to move out of this bias.

But why doesn’t it become important to check the background of a person individually? Why is it assumed that if a person is born into a certain RACE and CASTE he will have gone through the pain of bias?

Talking of pain here, say a student gets Rank – 30! Should he be in the top 30 or not? That’s a simple question! Isn’t it pain what he feels when he was there and yet not there! Who is biased against whom here? Well someone tell me if the term ‘Socialism’ is justified here!

The only way there can be any reservation here in this country is (here he/his are used hypothetically

A) Based on the economic background of a person.
B) Whether or not anybody in a person’s direct family utilized any reservations previously.
C) Whether or not the person is eligible to pass a knowledge test in a respective field.
D) Whether or not the person is going to utilize his skills for the development of India, for atleast five years from when he starts reaping the benefits of his reservation.
E) And that his reservation will cancel the reservation of his family!
F) No reservation will mean that a person is allowed a seat in a class. He/she can avail of money only, apart from memberships in libraries or free/rebated treatment in hospitals.

But if the reservations system proposed by Mandal-II is the greatest boon for a country, why did the Prime Minister of India, only ask the private companies to implement this. He should have asked cabinet to draft a law (like the recent one approved by Cabinet on Cricket Match Television screen rights). Why is there no such Law? So does that mean the Prime Minister/Governments allows the ‘Caste bias’ (which is everywhere in India, except Government Institutes such as an AIIMS ) to continue?

If the present system continues the way it is, the day will be not far that jokes like a 11 members cricket team will have 20% OC, 30% women, etc!