The Indian Government has decided to keep 49.5% reservation in India's top technological(IIT) and management universities(the IIM's) for students from the OBC (other backward castes). Do you think the move is a good idea or do you think it will erode the quality of these world-class institutions?  (personally, I feel this decision SUCKS!Aren't we all equal?What makes the backward class so backward that they have to be spoon-fed to compete with the so called "brahmin-ical class"?)
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No. Its a dirty political game. Gandhi ji fought against untouchability but these politicians promoting this "untouchability". Yes, most of us dont have any friends from these reserved categories. Beacause most unreserved category population hates these reserved category people because they are enjoying the special "privilage" of reservation class but we are not responsible for this BUT OUR POLITICIANS because their children dont suffer in any way so they cant feel any pains. Why they want to divide and rule in this way? just for their self interest? \nThese reserved category will be respected when they come forward to compete in a fair manner only using their brains and oppose this reservation policy if they want any respect in the society. Otherwise they will live "untouchability" for generations to come.
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I'm sourthern Indian and I'm ashamed to say that the caste system stays alive and well here. (It's worse in the North with added problems.) Many of us throw all of these out and believe every human being is the same as the other. There is no 'low' and no 'high'. Consider this the same as racism. Most of them are not fortunate to break away from the caste system, because of the way they've been brought up -  to think that this is 'right'. It's going to take a very long time for India to turn around. Having said that, we've got lots of beauty in our people too and most of my friends have married people from other communities and inter-racially too :-) Of course, the whole bunch is judged by one bad apple. Pity, this opinion will stick, untill the entire problem goes away.
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It's dead wrong.  It's punishing law abiding citizens.  A college education is an oppertunity, not a guarenteed right to anyone.  There's tons of good students who can't afford to go, who's parents can't afford it either and are caught in the middle with grants and loans.  Many who still have to work their way through just like I did.  Many who just have to accept they can't go now or maybe never.  To allow carte blanc to ONE group of people is wrong.  I couldn't afford out of state tuition and so I had to go and live in that state and fullfill their residency requirements before I could go.  No one is "forbidding" them the oppertunity to go.  There is no rule that says you HAVE to go to college the fall immediatly following HS graduation or you'll never get an education.  It might be the prefered route but it's not mandatory.  A secondary education was only "easy" for the people with alot of money.  The rest of us had to find a way if we wanted it bad enough.  Why should they be any different?
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No. Quota systems are never a good plan, as they elevate certain groups above others. Things like school entrance and jobs should be based on MERIT, rather than your class, appearance, weight, etc.
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this reservation thing is wrong it is ruining our country.\nreseravation if necessary should be allowed at schooling level of education.\n If govt wants to give reservation  then it should give to those who r financially weak.This whole resrvation drama is pure votebank politics and is very dangerous for the future\nof INDIA.\nIn my opinion it is high time to correct our selves and eliminate this reservation system step by step this v can do by applying reservation plans as five year policies and work hard to remove any sort of differences created by politicians or anyone elseby punishing  them in hardest possible ways as per the law.
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Do u see any merit in any Govt department? or any Govt functioning? Its like talking about a bullet train to people who have never seen anything better than a bullock cart! Now they want to increase seats.\nAlas! i wish increasing the seats in IIM and IIT would have been as easy as it is to make an Indian politician! Its so easy to make a politicians as it needs just a few lessons like\n- How to commit murders and rapes\n- How to take bribes\n- How to screw up the country by bending and curcumventing rules\n- How to act siphon of public money without being caught\n- How to sell the country\n- How to whip religeous, caste and separatist passions to garner votes\n- How to rig elections\n\nOn the other hand IIT's and IIM's are world class institutes and they make best of the Engineers and the best of managers in the world. They create best infrestructure and have to device international standards of teaching with the best vrains as faculties so its not easy to increase evene a single seat without a long planning and upgradation of infrastructure.\n\nThe problem is that people like Arjun singh think that its as easy to make world class manager as its to make a Indian class politician. The fact is its much easier to make a Raja Bhaiya or DP Yadav and very difficult to make a Narayan Murthy
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Obviously he should be shot. The politicians just want the SC/ST/OBC votes. If they were interested in welfare, they would have concentrated on primary education, so that these "weaker" sections become competent by the time they reach graduation level.\n\nSCs/STs/OBCs think they are going to benefit from the quota -- they will not. Even if the quotas are implemented with "creamy layer" restriction, only rich SCs/STs/OBCs will benefit from the quota. I've seen well-dressed people coming in cars to admission centers with "Non-creamy layer" certificates stating that their father's yearly income is less that 48,000 rupees. Quotas are injustice to everybody -- the poor SCs/STs/OBCs as well as the meritorious General Category students.\n\nAs about Arjun Singh, he is the biggest politicial dramatist. If we have more scoundrels like him, we will soon see bloodshed and riots between General candidates and reserved candidates.
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Whatever u think is right. There is time to drop Sachin as the same way the selectors drops Ganguly. I think there should be some transparent procedure to select national team. If somebody is drooped due to his bad performance then definitely it should be applied for all. I don't think Sachin and Ganguly is end of their carrier, But What I think If Ganguty is doped due to his bad performance then there is a time to drop Tendulkar also. I don't want any politics to select INDIAN CRICKET TEAM
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I am an Indian and I am too offended by the questions that people out here usually ask. I don't think they even check back for the responses. (Except for the ones looking for Pathan's cell number.).\n\nI do admit that the language is a problem. But that shouldn't be an excuse for asking questions just for the sake of it.\n\nI think this section clearly reflects the state of Indian cricket. Millions of fans, yes. But look at their understanding of the game. No wonder the Indian cricket board makes billions, without the team doing anything of significance on the field.\n\nOne more point: You are lucky that you don't have to read Indian cricket journalists as I have to do every morning. They are even more pathetic. It takes one century to make Sehwag the best ever Indian opener. And the next day duck makes him a player who has got into the team through his "connections".
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Huni-Valley (W/R), March 27, GNA - Dr Toni Aubynn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Huni-Valley Secondary School, has described the computer-based selection process as a great idea particularly for the deprived schools but can only be a temporary redress.\n\nIn his view, equity and choice could be achieved if there were equitable endowment resources in all the secondary schools. Dr Aubynn said this at the 30th anniversary, Speech and Prize-Giving Day celebration of the school at Huni-Valley on Saturday. The anniversary was themed: "Computer-based selection process, the challenges of a deprived Secondary school".\n\nDr Aubynn said, "The inequitable endowment of teaching and learning resources in our secondary schools has in the past been the bane of the chequered and cumbersome admission process which has necessitated the introduction of computerized selection process".\n\nHe said the introduction of the computer-based selection process from JSS to SSS has rather exciting public debate. Dr Aubynn said the proponents of this idea argue strongly that this selection method promotes equity for all stakeholders while the critics on the other hand argue that the method takes away the fundamental opportunity for parents and pupils to choose which secondary school they want to attend.\n\nHe said computer selection process could pose a major challenge to the amenities and facilities of less endowed schools if consistent efforts are not made to seriously address the situation of these schools.\n\nMr Alex Amponsah, the first Senior Prefect of the School and the President of HUNIVASS Old Students Association (HOSA) said HOSA would install and develop communication programmes in the school. On behalf of the HOSA, he donated 20 million cedis and three desktop computers to the school.\n\nNana Enimil Kunmah IV, Chief of Huni-Valley and of BOSOMTWE Division of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area in a short history, mentioned Dr Anthony Kwasi Appiah whose influence got the school captured in the 19974/75 government budget for an 18-unit two storey classroom, one storey science laboratory and one storey girls dormitory. He expressed regret that no family head was ready to release plots of land for the construction work to start and therefore used his position to site the school at where it is. However, he said, this resulted in a court action and he won the case and the construction work began.
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Hm mm. very interesting point of view.I feel the human race as a whole is closer to the stars than the jungle.However some would like to halt progress in the hopes they can dominate and control the masses.India is one of the more developed cultures in our time with knowledge and reason they dealt with the Taliban destroying 3,000 year old religious shrines.They dealt with the Islamic intrusion in Cashmere region.So I personally feel the odds of India becoming a welcome member of democracy is better than 50/50.Once the seed has been planted it will grow slow at times fast at others but you will never undo it's growth now that it has been tasted it will fight to survive.India's best days are yet to come.I can't say for sure if it is a true democracy however it is trying hard to be one,give it time and it shall be
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I am not an Indian.. although I have had the same experience.\n\nI appreciated my ex because he informed me about what happened and he prepared me for it. He told me everything and I respected it... \n\nIt may be hard to understand at first, but that is the way that they were brought up/raised. That is part of them that no one else can take away, not even those people that they are in love with.\n\n(May be there are some parents who are more "open" to such kind of a relationship. But a greater majority of Indians are not, especially with their caste system. Actually, it does not happen only to inter-racial relationships, but also to relationships concerning people who belong to different castes. If one comes from a lower caste, then he/she is not acceptable to the family - at least that's what I was told. Not to forget the arranged marriages that's still going on until today.)\n\nWe loved each other then, we both knew that. (we were  together for 4 years) but we both could not do anything especially with his ill father asking him to stay away from me. I understood his plight being the eldest son and let him go.\n\nNow, we're still in good terms. We still get to talk/email once in a while without mention of commitment or love - just exchange of pleasantries. \n\nWe do not know what's gonna happen in the future. But for the time being, we're OK this way.
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National Integration in India is honored at all levels of organisational set up in India. However each approach should be genuinely moved through the respective departments. And as you know each concern person should be pleased. education is all together is a different case. The approach differs depending on the standing orders of the organisation in which a person is employed.\nRegards
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In its own stead, nothing is bad or good. It is the way it is used, implemented and taken up that makes it bad or good. In India reservation was and is used to please some people and get quick votes, be it SC&ST provisions in constitution which was originally meant for 15 years or implementation of Mandal commission after its lying in cold storage for years. There are many aspects of reservation. It is fact there are some strata of society who need support to rise from their current status of poverty or backwardness. Not all of us who have not seen deprived life know they really know what a backward person faces in her/his life.\nHowever there is opposition for reservation because the benefit of it is are not going to actual people rather they are taken up by some people of these society who are already in upper class whereas actual needy people are still at the same place. No one will object if a really needy get the benefit, Most of people are furious since it is someone who is not needy who is reaping benefit. There are many arguments in this reservation issue:\n1. Instead of caste basis, give it on economic basis: As far as making economic condition as criteria is concerned, there is always good and bad of all thoughts. Good about this will be that this should be the correct way to decide for giving help however there are too many lacunas in this as getting certificate for economic background is very easy to get since no one file income tax return and there is no proof of incomes for people other than salaried people so what will happen ultimately is again people who do not deserve the benefit will get it and needy will remain eluded with this.\n2. Incompetent people in jobs: I agree that when it comes to job then what we need are competent people in jobs to provide proper service and let our country grow. It is wrong to say the people who need help to rise first time are not competent but what is required is that we bring them up and educate and train them so that they are competent enough to take up the challenges. \n3. Would you like a doctor coming through quota to operate on you who does not how to use scalpel: Now if we talk about getting a doctor without enough skills. This is often repeated example but what we fail to understand that a person cannot be a doctor just by getting admission in medical college. S/he became doctor after passing out from the college. If we say that college examination system is such that they will pass person without knowledge then problem does not lie in reservation in admission but in examination system which required to be looked into. Having said that if education system is not good and it will allow person without skill to get the degree then what is guarantee that a person who has come by other route let us by paying higher fees or something and for that matter what is guarantee that a person who have scored 90+ marks is good in medical study. So then we are running risk of many doctors without skills operating on us. So this argument that if the person has come with reservation will be not competent doctor is not correct. If a person has passed MBBS (s/he can be anyone reserve one or other) and do not know how to use scalpel and then we should hung all the teachers who have taught them, people who have set the papers  and all the examiners who has taken their practical exams and checker who checked their examination papers.\n4. What about other type of reservations: why there so much hue and cry about backward class reservations, do everyone really want selection of students on merit basis? if yes, then why there is not no one appear to oppose the other kind of quota called as management quota or nri quota. if all the protest is based on the concept of merit, will the protestant also oppose the private medical and engineering college; giving birth to so called meritorious students by engulfing a big price? \n5. Reservation will take country backward: If that is true then why & how
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Politician's feel good to go abroad. Spend tax payers money and be treated by an Indian doctor abroad. I agree they must have the guts to be treated by reservationists . But you see they are only good at passing reserve types law cause they will get votes. By getting treated they do not get votes or they may not even be covered by news paper. But if they go abroad they get news paper coverage which fuels their ego's
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i am not sure i heard it has about 500(and not 400)\n50% reserved for TN\n\nmy question is not getting any reply.\nin AIEEE 2006 ,i have got 273rd rank in the state(Tamil Nadu) and 17704th All India rank.\ndo i have any chance of getting in?\nplease reply with all the info u know.\nlike wat course i might get etc.\nramthegreatcv@yahoo.com
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I think it is a good idea but not only for basic k-12 I think it would be great for colleges as well, I have an issue myself I went back to school for a semester and the following semester I couldn't attend because the the retarded laws they have on student aid and how you have to make practically nothing to get it sucks. So now I'm out for another year trying to scrounge up money to go back, I would like to just get it over with but that's not going to work. They say get a student loan, but I don't qualify for one of those either. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and don't like it. I know this isn't on your subject really but was nice to get it out anyway.