Reservation in Educational Institutes
If you are one of the many aspiring for a Government Institute (IITs & IIMs included), this news has got to hit you. There is now a possibility of upto 49.5% reservation in these institutes.
The reservation percentages first,
Scheduled Caste - 15%
Scheduled Tribes - 7.5%
OBC - 27%
Physically Handicapped - 3% (not compulsorily)
3 of them existed before, OBC is of course new.
What are the implications? Clearly lesser seats in the General/Open Category.
The problem, accordining to me, is that reservations for certain classes is in itself not bad, provided the correct class of people benefit from it. Instead of reservations based on Caste, there ought to be reservations based on Financial standing, for the financially underpriviledged would not get enough opportunities in education as compared to his wealthier friends.
Also, reservations must be in Primary Education so that the problem of equal educational opportunity is solved at that level. Now obviously, reservations work best in Government institutes, but many Government run schools in India are nowhere as good as their private run counterparts (simple reasons include low pay for teachers in Govt. Institutes)
But, the reservation needs to be tackled at that level.
How would the Govt. go about identifying the financial standing of individuals in a country where majority of the people show a wrong income to pay lesser taxes? (exclude salaried persons here)
So, you see the problem in hand.
What could be a good action plan,
1) Plan for reservations based on financial standing of the individual
2) To genuinely identify the needy, come up with stricter laws for frauds in showing incorrect income (how does 'teen gunaa lagaan' sound ;))
3) Have reservations for the identified people in Govt. institutes of Primary Education
4) Improve quality of such institutes by paying well to attract good teachers (you have more money now that people are being made to pay taxes in full)
5) Once you do that, by the time students enter their graduating schools, they are at the same level in terms of education opportunity
6) Now you can afford to not have any reservations (at all) at the graduate levels and higher. Entry to institutes is purely on merit from this stage onwards.
The outcome of this is, everyone gets equal opportunity in education upto some point after which he/she has to let his performance do the talking. Surely seems a better option than what is being followed now.
The reservation percentages first,
Scheduled Caste - 15%
Scheduled Tribes - 7.5%
OBC - 27%
Physically Handicapped - 3% (not compulsorily)
3 of them existed before, OBC is of course new.
What are the implications? Clearly lesser seats in the General/Open Category.
The problem, accordining to me, is that reservations for certain classes is in itself not bad, provided the correct class of people benefit from it. Instead of reservations based on Caste, there ought to be reservations based on Financial standing, for the financially underpriviledged would not get enough opportunities in education as compared to his wealthier friends.
Also, reservations must be in Primary Education so that the problem of equal educational opportunity is solved at that level. Now obviously, reservations work best in Government institutes, but many Government run schools in India are nowhere as good as their private run counterparts (simple reasons include low pay for teachers in Govt. Institutes)
But, the reservation needs to be tackled at that level.
How would the Govt. go about identifying the financial standing of individuals in a country where majority of the people show a wrong income to pay lesser taxes? (exclude salaried persons here)
So, you see the problem in hand.
What could be a good action plan,
1) Plan for reservations based on financial standing of the individual
2) To genuinely identify the needy, come up with stricter laws for frauds in showing incorrect income (how does 'teen gunaa lagaan' sound ;))
3) Have reservations for the identified people in Govt. institutes of Primary Education
4) Improve quality of such institutes by paying well to attract good teachers (you have more money now that people are being made to pay taxes in full)
5) Once you do that, by the time students enter their graduating schools, they are at the same level in terms of education opportunity
6) Now you can afford to not have any reservations (at all) at the graduate levels and higher. Entry to institutes is purely on merit from this stage onwards.
The outcome of this is, everyone gets equal opportunity in education upto some point after which he/she has to let his performance do the talking. Surely seems a better option than what is being followed now.
Labels: IIM, Reservation
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