In this competitive age for India to stride ahead, it is time to do away
with the skewed policy of reservations for jobs and in electoral politics
as well. Admissions to all professional colleges have to be also strictly
on merit.
The Constitution of India provides for the Fundamental Right to Equality,
without discrimination on the grounds of sex, caste, creed or religion. The
very concept of reservations is all about vote bank politics.
It is appalling at how plagued we have become by a sheer sense of
illogicality. The government can financially help the economically
backward in pursuit of further education so that they compete with the
mainstream. On one hand the law provides for equality and on the other hand
there is a policy of reservation, which by its very genesis is a favour.
Equality doesn’t brook favours.
After 68 years of Independence the golden rule has to be to aim to get the
best qualified person for every position – irrespective of sex, caste,
creed or religion.
May those great words of Rabindranath Tagore guide us:
*Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge
is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow
domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless
striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of
reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where
the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into
that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.*
Aires Rodrigues
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