Reservations about Reservations

All this reservation stuff is giving me the heebie-jeebies. I am really scared that unless I get a truly amazing, spectacularly wonderful rank in the engineering entrance exams I will not be able to get through anywhere.
What I don’t really get is why is the general category student being penalised so? Haven’t we a right to education. Why should it be our needs and our alone that are sacrificed at the altar of social justice?

I believe the number of doctors, engineers, research scholars; etc is very few in comparison to our population. And most of the graduates are deemed unemployable by the leading global and domestic firms and companies. This is evident in the mad rush for IIT graduates. A whole many government schools are in shambles. The quality and quantity of graduates is generally deemed to be pitiful for a supposed giant of the 21st century. So I suggest that if the politicians and ministers are really concerned about the plight of the people, they take a long, hard look at the education system today. That they try to improve the system that caters to a large amount of population, many of whom are underprivileged, including those who have borne the brunt of the caste system. Because the majority of the population doesn’t even get proper schooling. The majority include a lot of people who have been stigmatised by the caste system.




For the rest of us, raise your voice now.