In a free and fair country, the candidate who is the most worthy should get the opportunity irrespective of castes, creed and religion. When caste becomes the criteria for selection, how can one expect to get what is honestly due to him. The government argues that it can balance the equation by increasing the number of seats in the educational institutions. But then it is the quality of education that suffers. Before we come to the higher secondary stage none of us even talks of these quotas. Then the process of applying for the entrance exams for the professional courses starts and the seeds of caste get drilled into our minds.
Reservation! It is a word which haunts every Indian student. But before coming on to what effects reservations have on education, let me provide you with some of the facts of how reservations take place.
The central government funded higher education institutions are approved for 22.5%
reservation for Schedule Castes (SCs) and Schedule Tribes (STs). Also, an additional 27% reservation is there for Other Backward Classes (OBC). Not only this, about 15%-50% reservations take place in some of the private colleges in the form of management quotas where the seats are purely decided on the basis of how much money one can pay. Other than this, reservations also happen on the basis of gender and religion where in females and minority religious groups like Muslims and Christians are given preferences. The examples of such institutions are Jamia Milia Islamia University and St. Stephen’s College.
Among all these reservations, the ones who suffer a lot are the General category students. The reason is simple, the students in general category are the most and the seats left for them are quite less. The government has become unfair to the students of general category in order to be fair with these groups. This is the major adverse effect of reservations on education.
Many times it happens that due to these reservation quotas many deserving students fail to get into reputed colleges and many undeserving students manage to take admission just on the basis of caste, religion, gender or money. This is certainly unfair and undermines the education system of India.
Also, it is harmful for the students of these reserved categories. This is
because these students have become used to this comfort. They know that they
can have admission in any reputed college just by scoring average marks.
Therefore, they do not do adequate hard work.
Moreover, admissions on the basis of caste, religion, gender
or money is completely wrong. Every student has the right to education and
therefore a fair chance should be given to every student to qualify in an
examination. Education should be provided purely on the basis of ability of a student and not on any other basis.
To conclude, reservations affect the Indian education
system severely. They not only hamper the growth of deserving students
but harm the education of those students also who are under the reserved
categories. Admissions should be conducted on the basis of ability and
capability of a student and not on the basis of their quotas.
P/S :-
Currently a reality show Satyamev Jayte raised the topic of casteism (generalising the term Untouchability) and about 98% Indians were against this. There they have shown that people usually don’t treat well with the lower caste people, yes! I agree that its wrong, now as the time is changing one should change their mind too but don’t you think that these reservation system will inject the feeling of casteism in students specially General/Open category when they will not get their desired institutions even if they are capable just because of this reservation system only.Just think once....
Reservation! It is a word which haunts every Indian student. But before coming on to what effects reservations have on education, let me provide you with some of the facts of how reservations take place.
The central government funded higher education institutions are approved for 22.5%
reservation for Schedule Castes (SCs) and Schedule Tribes (STs). Also, an additional 27% reservation is there for Other Backward Classes (OBC). Not only this, about 15%-50% reservations take place in some of the private colleges in the form of management quotas where the seats are purely decided on the basis of how much money one can pay. Other than this, reservations also happen on the basis of gender and religion where in females and minority religious groups like Muslims and Christians are given preferences. The examples of such institutions are Jamia Milia Islamia University and St. Stephen’s College.
Among all these reservations, the ones who suffer a lot are the General category students. The reason is simple, the students in general category are the most and the seats left for them are quite less. The government has become unfair to the students of general category in order to be fair with these groups. This is the major adverse effect of reservations on education.
Many times it happens that due to these reservation quotas many deserving students fail to get into reputed colleges and many undeserving students manage to take admission just on the basis of caste, religion, gender or money. This is certainly unfair and undermines the education system of India.
Also, it is harmful for the students of these reserved categories. This is
because these students have become used to this comfort. They know that they
can have admission in any reputed college just by scoring average marks.
Therefore, they do not do adequate hard work.
Moreover, admissions on the basis of caste, religion, gender
or money is completely wrong. Every student has the right to education and
therefore a fair chance should be given to every student to qualify in an
examination. Education should be provided purely on the basis of ability of a student and not on any other basis.
To conclude, reservations affect the Indian education
system severely. They not only hamper the growth of deserving students
but harm the education of those students also who are under the reserved
categories. Admissions should be conducted on the basis of ability and
capability of a student and not on the basis of their quotas.
P/S :-
Currently a reality show Satyamev Jayte raised the topic of casteism (generalising the term Untouchability) and about 98% Indians were against this. There they have shown that people usually don’t treat well with the lower caste people, yes! I agree that its wrong, now as the time is changing one should change their mind too but don’t you think that these reservation system will inject the feeling of casteism in students specially General/Open category when they will not get their desired institutions even if they are capable just because of this reservation system only.Just think once....
