A few days back, I was having a chat with few of my friends at the insti about "Reservation". I wanted to make a point which I couldn't due to some interruption in our conversation (It was almost 3am and the mosquitoes were having an early morning snack!!!). I would like to share my point here.
To do that let me tell you about a girl in my class. She was from a SC caste(creamy layer). When the rest of the class used to pay roughly Rs5,000 as our fees for M.Sc., she used to pay just Rs500. She was not so good in studies but did a great job at mugging up stuff. So she scored a decent grade. She was not interested in pursuing a career in physics and had joined M.Sc. only because she hadn't got a seat in MBA. She was the most well dressed and fashionable person in our class. You would understand why if I tell you her background which goes like this. Her father was working in a government job and was earning a decent 2.5 lakh per annum. She had two brothers, both had finished their MBA in good colleges and were software engineers working in big companies (so you can imagine their pay were of the order of 10 lakh per annum). I think I forgot to say her brothers were bachelors. They had a bunglow in their hometown. They were building an extra floor and were dealing with the agents to buy a new house as well. I think you must have pretty much gotten the picture.
Now the question that I ask myself is "does this girl deserve a scholarship?" Is it fair to the other students in the class that she was given privileges when other students who were much better academically, wanted to pursue physics and not so well to do, were struggling to make ends meet?
Reservation should be there for deserving people. It should not depend on what caste the student belongs to. Casteism is a major problem facing our country and we should try to abolish it as soon as possible.
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