what is your opinion about Arjun Singh's placing a bill for 50% reservation in HIgher Education?
363583
Ridiculous!!!!!\nHe n UPA govt, seems to play vote bank politics.\nI tel u no party is gonna oppose this rule as they fear to loose SC/ST votes.\nThey take votes of General Category 4 granted.So,all Open Category people must get united to oppose this act of dividing our society.\nIt threatens country's integrity.\nIITs n IIMs r pride,brands of India, produce best talent n there is no place 4 any criteria other than merit.\nTo enhance the status of backward class people we should spend large money n time at grass root levels like primary schools,secondary schools n make them able 2 compete 4 IITs n IIMs because \nAs Abraham Lincoln said :\n"Democracy ensures equal opportunities not equal enviornments"
553958
Reservation is the easiest way to garner votes. It may not be the best way to uplift the underpriviledged by killing merit and settling for mediocrity. 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 an Indian Neta but very difficult to make a Global Engineer or Manager
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highle debated and disussed..\n\nthe answer remains that reservation has hardly helped and changed the way things are happening. reason.. simple. the way it is applied indiscriminately at present.\n\nhere lies the solution ; -\n\nreservation as such should not completely be removed. i agree with you. the basis should be monetary as i have stated in one of my earlier answers on the same topic.\n50% is not required considering the fact that so many seats remain vacant. \nit should be ensured that once a person from the backward class gets reservation his following generations should not be allowed to avail this opportunity because that is gross injustice. and once in office he should not be given the privilege of early promotion which is extremely unfair. and also people from the backward section earning decent money should not be given reservation (unlike one of my friends who is an sc and is in iit.. he didn't deserve reservation beacuse.his parents annual income was 7 lakhs.. imagine!!)\n\nthere are olny two sections rich and poor. extend the reservation to the poor.\n\nand also reservation at each and every step will handicap the person mentally and he will never put the best effort into his work beacuse it will be at the back of his mind that he has an advantage over others..
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Excellent!\n\nPeople are all for special perks and programs until it directly effects them in a negative way.\n\nHere's how you explain it to the young college crowd: How about if we take the average grade for the class and give that to everyone regardless of whether or not they studied, did their homework, or even showed up for class? Then, black and Hispanic students get a 10% bonus for simply being black. Do you think that's fair?\n\nI haven't heard one logical argument from any one of them.
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Since does not look like our President reads and answer on Yahoo! Answer so on his behalf I am forced to answer:)\n\nNothing is bad or good in its own stead. It is the way it is used, implemented and taken up which 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 original for 15 years or implementation of Mandal commission after years of lying in bag. 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.\n\nHowever there is opposition for reservation because the benefit of it are not going to actual people rather they are taken up by some people of these society who are already in up class are taking up these benefits whereas actual needy people are still at the same place. No one will object if a really needy get the benefit, You and all are furious since it is someone who is not needy who is reaping benefit.\n\nAs 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 of deciding giving help however there are too many lacuna in this as getting certificate for economic background is very easy to get since no one file income tax return and there 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.\nI agree that when it comes to job then what we need is 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. 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.\n\nSo mantra for anything to be good and successful is honest implementation of the same.
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it is related reservations -"(5) Nothing in this article or in sub-clause (g) of clause (1) of\n\narticle 19 shall prevent the State from making any special provision,\n\nby law, for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in so far as such special provisions relate to their admission to educational institutions including private educational institutions,  whether aided or unaided by the State, other than the minority  educational institutions referred to in clause (1) of article 30.".
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Good :-)\nbut he should concentrate on taxing the super rich especially those who inherit money. \nWhy not have a inheritance tax say above 1 crore.\n\nShould concentrate on making self employement a viable option by providing loans for small and medium business without collateral esp for business like services which do not create physical assets.\n\nProvide more education loans esp the gap between primary education and the degree, primary education is free in govt schools , banks provide loans for degree but what about in between the poor can't really fullfill this gap.
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No way. Politicians can go to any extent to get a few extra votes. In the process, they are destyoying the society and the merit. What is surprising is that a person who already has his legs in grave (Arjun Singh) and is not even able to walk properly, is still thinking about getting more and more votes.
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its awesome! it is set to boom to greater hights. below mentioned are few reasons why it is set to reach new levels\n1. Ever increasing indian economy\n2. Booming IT/ITeS sector\n3. More graduates coming out of the college every year\n4. People are getting more health concious than ever.\n5. We have very few players in the market, haven't exploited the potential fully yet.
556678
Look i don't know if you are a OBC or in for of the reservation cause i'm totally against it...see it this way SC/ST have upto 25% reservation...so the greater mass have to really fight it out to get into good colleges...if i were a minister i would grant reservation for the OBC and tell them to get themselves fit into that 25% quota...so that they also face a bit of fight ...and feel how tough it is to shout for quota rather qualifing for the seat.
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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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Nothing is bad or good in its own stead. It is the way it is used, implemented and taken up which 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 original for 15 years or implementation of Mandal commission after years of lying in bag. 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.\n\nHowever there is opposition for reservation because the benefit of it are not going to actual people rather they are taken up by some people of these society who are already in up class are taking up these benefits whereas actual needy people are still at the same place. No one will object if a really needy get the benefit, You and all are furious since it is someone who is not needy who is reaping benefit.\n\nAs 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 of deciding giving help however there are too many lacuna in this as getting certificate for economic background is very easy to get since no one file income tax return and there 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.\nI agree that when it comes to job then what we need is 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. 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.\n\nSo mantra for anything to be good and successful is honest implementation of the same.
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not 1 but we need to do 2 things...1) free and similar education to all right from primary to higher level...and 2) free medical facilities to all teh citizens of India.\nthis will bring up huge changes not only to the mindset of people but also a feeling of belongingness to country...man needs most help emotional as well as monetory when some near and dear 1 is ill...if teh govt. provide him at that critical time then he will feel happy and obliged towards govt. and will not try to sabbotage ne efforts made by the govt...also he will pay his taxes happily for some1 else like him will be benefited by this act.\nso free education and medical facility to all is a must to grow responsible citizens.
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i really do not support this reservation\nit should be given only to poor people who just cannot afford but they have real talent.
650697
No, not at all. Reservation of all types should be done away with. Actually politicians are playing this game to save their vote bank.
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the protests by medical students is very much right becoz admissions should b given according to merit or ability of a student .if the govt. itself will make such blunder by reserving quota in the pvt. sector our RIGHT TO EQUALITY given by the INDIAN CONSTITUTION will b HINDERED
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Its better to scrap the entrance exam system for admission into professional colleges in Tamil Nadu. Reasons being, lots of private coaching institutions mint money, by getting the inside information from the corrupt school education department.\n\nIf you notice, the students who prepare their notes from coaching classes always emerge as top notchers. Its an organised game. Meriterious students who may be poor, will never enter professional colleges, as long the private coaching centres thrive.\n\nEducation has to be on merit & equality should be given to all, irrespective of student's backgrounds.