Dalit Reservation policies
I refer to Mr. Sam George view’ on the above subject. At the outset, I can only empathise
with Sam’s predicament. All I want to say is that just because Dalits were wronged for so many years..in fact for centuries, doesn’t mean that they should do a “U-turn” now against us. By the way, what are they to gain from this reservation.
We should try to address this issue from its root, rather than solving it from the surface as has been done in the past. Many of our premier corporates like CII have had already come forward with their proposal to fund projects like primary education, but , government of the day chose the other way round. Just blindly extending
reservations to many backward classes of society would never help them in the long run. A case in point is the recently released report on IITs/IIMs’ performance card of reserved
category students. As expected, the report showed that their performance was much below par. A four year course, was being completed by them in a record time of eight years!!. Frankly speaking what value does that certificate hold for them in future. This only shows their hastiness in becoming equals with open category students through back door mechanisms. And a sense of false pride. The end result : failure
Secondly, I would like to advice them to stop dreaming about reservations – once for all through out their lives. Because nothing seems to permanent here, you see. Earlier they enjoyed government patronage in jobs in state establishment in every aspect of their career (even promotions). But what has happened now, government has sold off their units to private players for profitability. So now, government is busy trying to push off reservations into throats of private players through force (legislation). Again, here end result would be obvious. Lets face it. MNCs’ would simply run away to other destinations, and future of foreign investments would be severely affected. What about private players here, they may simply shift their operations to other low cost yielding countries over a period of time. So, its back to square one (for reserved category students). They may be secretly laughing on us for the hardships we may be undergoing now, but eventually we will always emerge as the ultimate winners. Reservations in private segments also brings another issue of social compatibility with open category employees, with the latter choosing to avoid them in discussions and other parleys in office. Therefore, unnecessarily, they (reserved category) would be cornered. Secondly, again labour laws would have to made flexible to accommodate them. Here, government while implementing reservations in private segment would ask for written assurances from private players that reserved category shall not be under the scheme of “hire & fire”.
This again would make matters worse for private organization.
Lastly, I would like to say that, in this year and age of modernization and globalisation in every aspect of life, there is simply no place for misplaced emotions about being wronged in the past. Simply do not milk in the name of Dr. B.R Ambedkar and hope to carry on for ever. The writing on the wall is becoming clear – Come up through sheer hard work and competition. Only this help will them in realizing their true potential.