After so many days, a recent news on JAAT AGITATION in Haryana pushed me to write my views on RESERVATION or I should better mention CASTE BASED RESERVATION .
There were times in India when people belonging to lower and backward castes were suppressed and (very) ill treated by the upper classes of society. There were times when they were deprived even of their basic rights. There were times, when if you were a person belonging to a backward community, you were literally an "untouchable" and thus were subjected to inhuman treatment.
Those were the times when any number of facilities given to those backward classes were not enough to compensate their sufferrings. So, our leaders introduced Reservation System for their upliftment owing to which, the condition of the backward classes improved a lot over the time.
But unfortunately,there are still some places in India, where practice of untouchability is still carried out. If we try to find the basic reason for the ill treatment of backward classes(wherever it exists), it's not hard to reach on the conclusion that they are treated as such merely because of the TAGS of their CASTES and not because of the WORK they do !!
There were times in India when people belonging to lower and backward castes were suppressed and (very) ill treated by the upper classes of society. There were times when they were deprived even of their basic rights. There were times, when if you were a person belonging to a backward community, you were literally an "untouchable" and thus were subjected to inhuman treatment.
Those were the times when any number of facilities given to those backward classes were not enough to compensate their sufferrings. So, our leaders introduced Reservation System for their upliftment owing to which, the condition of the backward classes improved a lot over the time.
But unfortunately,there are still some places in India, where practice of untouchability is still carried out. If we try to find the basic reason for the ill treatment of backward classes(wherever it exists), it's not hard to reach on the conclusion that they are treated as such merely because of the TAGS of their CASTES and not because of the WORK they do !!
And what Reservation system is actually doing is making the situation worse! It is officially tagging and highlighting people with their Backward categories, i.e, people are officially given Discretion and rights on the basis of their castes. By giving special benefits to the backward classes, it is being proven that they are actually inferior to so called general people and logically, here lies the violation of RIGHT TO EQUALITY !
Moreover ,there are many people belonging to backward classes who don't actually need these special provisions but are availing them because they belong to a Backward class.And then, on the other side, there are people who actually need these provisions but
are deprived of them because they belong to an upper caste ! Where are their "special benefits" ? Is caste, a correct base for providing reservations? Ain't providing special benefits to the whole community, for the upliftment of only a fraction of people of that community, unjustice to the downtrodden people of other communities ?
After all this, why would an under- priviliged general candidate not discriminate with a well facilitated backward category candidate when he see him enjoying the benefits that he doesn't even need !
So, the Reservation System, which was originally introduced to eliminate caste discrimination, is, ironically, "encouraging" it !
And owing to this Great Reservation System, people are protesting to be Called BACKWARD and this can only happen in India where Reserved ones get jobs rather than the Deserving ones !!
Then we Complain about our Country, for not being DEVELOPED !!
