At present there seems to be a mad rush among people to get their caste registered under a reserved category to get the benefits doled out by government. Since politically this quota system ensures vote banks, no government in power is looking at the long term impact this stupid way of reservation will have on the overall growth of the nation.
When in the 50s, caste based reservation was introduced, the plan was to revisit the list of castes every 5 years or so and make changes,i.e add new ones and remove older ones which have benefited. The 2nd part, removing castes from lists, never happened and the list just kept getting bigger and bigger. Of course not every citizen supports or believes this caste based reservations but there seems to be no way to stop this menace.
I have thought of a way to beat this stupidity. It's an appeal to all the intelligent people (students, parents, guardians) who happen to belong to a reserved category and are not availing the reservations thinking that it is morally wrong to seek reservation and think that they are doing society good by fighting out in the general category - START USING QUOTA. Sounds silly - read on.
What you are doing is - you are allowing one seat from the reserved category to be given to a non-merit guy and fighting for the general unreserved category. Since you are intelligent you will anyways get the seat but you are increasing competition in the general category. Instead if you use quota you will take the seat reserved for your caste and allow one more general category brilliant student like you take up the general seat. This way in a bigger scheme of things you are ensuring that the overall pool (reserved as well as unreserved) of seats gets better, since all intelligent people are joining.
Think about it and let me know your thoughts. This to me seems to be a nice way to beat the system.
When in the 50s, caste based reservation was introduced, the plan was to revisit the list of castes every 5 years or so and make changes,i.e add new ones and remove older ones which have benefited. The 2nd part, removing castes from lists, never happened and the list just kept getting bigger and bigger. Of course not every citizen supports or believes this caste based reservations but there seems to be no way to stop this menace.
I have thought of a way to beat this stupidity. It's an appeal to all the intelligent people (students, parents, guardians) who happen to belong to a reserved category and are not availing the reservations thinking that it is morally wrong to seek reservation and think that they are doing society good by fighting out in the general category - START USING QUOTA. Sounds silly - read on.
What you are doing is - you are allowing one seat from the reserved category to be given to a non-merit guy and fighting for the general unreserved category. Since you are intelligent you will anyways get the seat but you are increasing competition in the general category. Instead if you use quota you will take the seat reserved for your caste and allow one more general category brilliant student like you take up the general seat. This way in a bigger scheme of things you are ensuring that the overall pool (reserved as well as unreserved) of seats gets better, since all intelligent people are joining.
Think about it and let me know your thoughts. This to me seems to be a nice way to beat the system.
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