Reservation is the term which is applied for the process of reserving one’s interest. Sometimes you get a berth or seat reserved in train or bus; sometimes you get a place reserved anywhere. Sometimes you have something reserved for you.
The implication is the same. Reservation gives you a special authority or possession for the thing you have got reserved. After Independence the world’s largest democracy i.e. India accepted this term in its Constitution in a very significant manner.
Every community has divided itself in two prominent categories first the privileged and the second the unprivileged or under-privileged. India has also followed this system of society right from very ancient period. Naturally there has always been a great rift between these two sections. After Independence the wise politicians thought over this rift very deeply.
They adopted the policy of reservation for the next twenty years in order to provide a special facility to the underprivileged and depressed class of the society to bring them in the mainstream.
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In the long twenty years our politicians became very mature and understood that the reserved class of people could be a great vote-bank for any political party. So the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi reinstated this policy for the next twenty years. Now reservation was no longer an effort to uplift the depressed classes but it became a weapon of the politicians to encash their vote-banks.
This malicious attitude reached its culmination when the then Prime Minister V.P. Singh in 1991 adopted the decision of Mandal Commission. It provoked a mass outrage among the students and the young generation. Now merit was not the criterian for getting a job. But now being a reserved class was at the prime stage.
The reservation of seats in job crossed the limit set by the Supreme Court which does not reccommend it beyond 50% of the total seat. Anyway it was not completely a success and V.P. Singh had to go.
Again in 2006 Arjun Singh, now the HRD Minister declared to impose the policy of reservation in such a manner that it surpassed even the Mandal Commission. Again it created mass outrage. Students from all communities came out to protest this malicious vote-politics.
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This time this policy has been declared to be implemented even in the AIIMS, IITs, and IIMs which were not included in V.P. Singh plan. Now these premiere institutes will have seats reserved for the most undeserving candidates who are in no way capable of doing the job. The UPA Government is silent upon the declaration of the HRD Minister. No opposition party dares to oppose this declaration or imposition because they think that they will lose their vote bank.
Whatever be the motive of the HRD Minister or the present politicians of our nation one thing is very much clear they are in no-thinking for the sound future generation because the quality of education will certainly fall in the high-class premiere institutions like IIMs, IITs and AIIMS. The rich can go to the universities abroad but what will happen to the middle class students. No one can answer it properly.
It is the time for the wellwishers of the nation to think over the grim future of India. The so-called nation-builders should spare their time to think what they want and how they can make a good nation with the machinery standing upon a reserved platform. This reservation has become a great curse for our nation.