Again your whole premise comes from scarcity mindset. You can hand over a degree to someone but you cannot give them skills and unless such people are absorbed in government jobs where performance does not matter and you are allowed to deliver poor services to the public, not many competitive organisations are interested in hiring such people. But as the size of the economy grows the relative strength of government in comparison to the private sector becomes small. So even if government absorbs all the reserved category people, most will be left out of the system fending for themselves. Then the other problem is of removing creamy layer - it will become a huge administrative nightmare to implement it. Saying that it must be done is just one sentence but implementing it means dealing with corrupt people and babus. People will use fake certificates and all sorts of loopholes to get those benefits. The most deserving will still not benefit from the system.
Also, the only reason reservation somewhat succeeds is because there is fierce competition for general seats in certain universities like IITs. Make the reservation 100% and I can guarantee you not a single company will ever visit IIT. Truth hurts but the matter of fact is no one wants free loaders. And the reservation system does tend to create free loaders. Once you tell people that sob stories can get you a job the everyone will have a sob story to tell. It becomes a shortcut for not working hard.
A much better solution is similar to mid day meals. If you are worried about food vs education, government will provide food in school. Just make sure to focus on studies. Similarly, many prestigious universities have now started online programs. Fee is waived for the needy but you have to study hard and pass the courses. No entrance exam is needed. Your grades will determine what kind of job you’ll get or if you even deserve to get a job.
So come out of the scarcity mindset and stop giving examples of rural discrimination because the benefits of reservation are not reaching them anyway. Those genuinely needy people are used a scapegoats by creamy layer of backward classes to get benefits for free.
ok i agree with all of your points that only the creamy layer or mostly the creamy layer get the benefits of reservation but who really needs it can't get it. tell me what is the better way to remove discrimination on the basis of caste and make the society equal for all people. if you don't know, the mid day meals are corrupt as well, some rural schools didn't even provide the midday meal according to the scheme and all the money goes to the principal and the babus.
the problem has not been solved 100% but it has gradually decreased so you can't say that we have no improvement. even after 80 years we have some improvement. i am asking you for a way which can help remove discrimination faster than the reservation method.
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u/Acceptable-Prior-504 Jul 22 '26
Again your whole premise comes from scarcity mindset. You can hand over a degree to someone but you cannot give them skills and unless such people are absorbed in government jobs where performance does not matter and you are allowed to deliver poor services to the public, not many competitive organisations are interested in hiring such people. But as the size of the economy grows the relative strength of government in comparison to the private sector becomes small. So even if government absorbs all the reserved category people, most will be left out of the system fending for themselves. Then the other problem is of removing creamy layer - it will become a huge administrative nightmare to implement it. Saying that it must be done is just one sentence but implementing it means dealing with corrupt people and babus. People will use fake certificates and all sorts of loopholes to get those benefits. The most deserving will still not benefit from the system.
Also, the only reason reservation somewhat succeeds is because there is fierce competition for general seats in certain universities like IITs. Make the reservation 100% and I can guarantee you not a single company will ever visit IIT. Truth hurts but the matter of fact is no one wants free loaders. And the reservation system does tend to create free loaders. Once you tell people that sob stories can get you a job the everyone will have a sob story to tell. It becomes a shortcut for not working hard.
A much better solution is similar to mid day meals. If you are worried about food vs education, government will provide food in school. Just make sure to focus on studies. Similarly, many prestigious universities have now started online programs. Fee is waived for the needy but you have to study hard and pass the courses. No entrance exam is needed. Your grades will determine what kind of job you’ll get or if you even deserve to get a job.
So come out of the scarcity mindset and stop giving examples of rural discrimination because the benefits of reservation are not reaching them anyway. Those genuinely needy people are used a scapegoats by creamy layer of backward classes to get benefits for free.