Reservation is pushing back our country by decades
Sometimes an exception on the court verdicts ought to be made in the
larger public interest. One such law is the Centre’s Bill to ensure that
reservation for scheduled castes, tribes and other backward classes in
appointments to central educational institutions
The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre)
Bill, 2019, was passed by the Lok Sabha. Its main object is to restore the
system of treating an institution or a university as a single unit to apply the
reservation roster, and thus help fill 7,000 teaching vacancies. The Bill
provides welcome relief for aspirants from the disadvantaged sections of
society.
The High Court noted that having the whole institution as a unit would
result in some departments having only reservation beneficiaries and others
only those from the open category. But the counterpoint is equally valid.
Having the department as the unit would mean smaller faculties would not have
any reservation. On the other
hand, taking the institution as the unit would give more opportunities for
these sections.
Reservation system seems like "eye for an eye" system. Okay,
some societies suffered die to the weak political structure of that time, but
will this "revenge" strategy help to reduce caste borders, or
someone's playing "divide n conquer" again? Too much obsession with
categories and castes - what is the logic to have less meritorious teachers and
instead have incompetent ones? This is ONE OF the reasons when India get no
place in top 500 educational institutions in world ranking. Reservation is not
achieving desired effect. We are just pushing back our country by decades. It
is rightly said, ‘Yatha Raaja, thatha Praja’ similarly ‘Yatha teacher, thatha
students and so country’.
This kind of arbitrary invocation of ordinance does not augur well for a
vibrant democracy,
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