Quota upheld – Is there a reason to celebrate?

Yesterday the Supreme Court upheld the quota policy, paving way for 27% reservations in professional education. A judgment that made all and sundry politicians happy, they just gained a vantage point, why wouldn’t they be happy?

The judgment ruling however excluded the creamy layer in the backward caste from using this benefit. I was really amused hearing about this judgment and sad for the fate of education that would be imparted to the coming generations.

Mr. Arjun Singh says that this quota won’t affect other people, as they would increase the number of seats in these institutions ensuring that other students don’t suffer. Come to think of it, I really wonder how he proposes to do that.

Do we have an infrastructure, money and quality staff that can bear this burden? In my college days itself I had seen instances of unrest as the teachers/professors were not being paid at the right time. Now with an increased burden of number of students with the same uncertain conditions does Mr. Singh expect quality education to be imparted to students?

Also how does he propose to exclude the creamy layer is something that needs to be seen. I think in this whole farce many people chose to turn a blind eye on many of the important issues

1. Do they seriously think a person who falls under the category but is from creamy layer would declare that and miss a seat in a premium institute?

2. As this would be brought in affect in phased manner, can the current infrastructure and other auxiliary services be upgraded at a similar speed?

3.How do they propose to keep a check on the background of the students being included in the institution to exclude creamy layer?

4. How many students (excluding creamy layer) would be able to afford the fees of IIM and IIT that now might range anywhere between 5-11 lakhs?

I think we as citizens of India do have a right to these questions, before our great politicians continue their cheap tricks of dividing this country under innumerable heads.

India is now gearing up to compete with world leaders in various fields, do our politicians seriously feel that their cheap tricks would help them in the long run? Does anybody in the world market care if I am a OBC, SC or ST or something else?

They can’t fool an average Indian by saying that they are seriously thinking about uplifting the poor and backward. Because if that’s the case then I want to know why isn’t India successful even after 60 years of independence in providing a decent school in every village across India? Why are there absolutely no substantial scholarships that are being given to rural schools. Today we can’t even boast of 90% literacy, then how does Arjun Singh propose to materialize his haloed reservation quota bill that he has been defending vociferously.

I just hope that Indian politicians grow out of their cheap tricks, that they have been using for ages to fool the masses and we as citizens stop accepting such unrealistic decisions.