What is reservation? Reservation is when a person books a place
in restaurant, flight, train, bus etc. The pre-booking of place at restaurant
does not ensure that the quality of food which would be served by the
restaurant would be good or the seats of the flight, bus or train would be
comfortable. Reservation just ensures that a place has been secured in advance.
When reservation does not ensure quality food in a restaurant the person might
fall sick because of bad food.
Now let me talk about reservation in education in India
which would be given to those who are considered people from backward class. These
people definitely get an ensured seat in a good college because of reservation
but then who will ensure the quality of engineers, doctors, lawyers and other professional
students which would come out from the college. The government which has given
reservation to backward people in the name of upliftment will they ensure
quality?
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar who is popularly known as
Babasaheb came from a dalit family but he became the first law minister of
India. When he became the law minister there was no reservation for position in
the Indian parliament which led him to become law minister; it was his merits,
skills, dedication and hard work which made him law minister of India.
Reservation in education for backward class should be strict
NO rather government should ensure that good primary education is provided in
every part of the country and these people are encouraged to attend schools and
become competitive enough to clear the competition exams on merit and occupy
the seat along with upper caste candidate on the basis of merit and not
reservation.
The question which the government should ask themselves is
that whether primary education is reaching out to the poor people staying in
villages; are there enough government schools and teachers who are willing to
provide free education to the poor people.
But again providing a good primary education is not just a
responsibility of government we as citizen of India also have some moral
responsibility towards this. In the movie Swades
it has been beautifully shown a NRI comes back to India and spreads the message
of education. Something similar has been shown in the movie Arakashan. But real life is not a movie and the modern Indians who are voicing their opinion regarding reservation they
should ask themselves are they ready to go to a place where there is no
electricity or no water connection and teach the children in such places. Are we
ready to treat everyone equal in our classrooms irrespective of which caste,
creed, culture, color, place, religion or gender one belongs to.
By providing reservation what government is doing is
definitely not right but we should ask question to ourselves that is our
attitude to those people who belong to backward class right. The backward class
should ask the question to themselves that is reservation what they really need
to prove to the world their worth. Only when every Indian will get ready to
spread primary education among children irrespective of their caste, creed,
culture, color, place, religion or gender would be time when we would really
see a change; a change that would be positive; a change which would be for the
betterment of every Indian.
I am also against the concept of donation which the rich people avail so that they can ensure better education for their child but right now my concern is over the caste based reservation. A positive change is very much needed and upliftment of those who are financially weak is required but providing reservation in the name of caste is not
an answer for the change. Let both rich and poor people prove their worth through merit rather than paying money or getting admission in reserved quota. Let there be a fair competition between all the categories so that there is a feeling of a just society.
