Reservations- Still there !!!!

Years back lots of youth lost their lives to fight against the menace of reservations which was a result of political gimmick played by “Mandal Hero” V P Singh. Due to his ambitions of fulfilling his political dream through politics of social upliftment of lower caste people, lots of promising young blood lost their lives. It was a negative politics which divided the society into two halves. Though I never say that lower caste was not treated badly and not neglected in the society. But instead of bridging the gap through their economic and educational betterment, caste based divide occured. Lower caste has been given a state. They have been told publicly that you are lower caste and now formally and politically we are putting a stamp that you are sick and weaker section of the society. Only 2-3% of lower caste has been helped through reservations. Reservation was there but there was a bad implementation of the system and corruption in machinery never let the benefit expand to the needier. Those who were living in villages and come under lower caste hardly benefited from this system. It was a lack of transparency and improper system that reservation is still beneficial for the lower caste of good income group and those who already have access of good education system or at least have a access to education system. Reservation is still irrelevant as the basic education is not provided to crores of children in India be it of any caste. If you don’t provide education to them then how can you expect them to apply for the post which has eligibility of 8th pass or high school?
I have several examples in places near my villages that people who are from schedule caste and backward class are still at the same level where they were at 15 years back. The Bhangis and Harijans(chamars as systems call them) living near my village ,are still very poor and comes under BPL (Below Poverty Line).They don’t have access of proper education system and they really never showed their interest in education. They were having more than 4 or 5 children to support them in their earnings through daily wages as laborers. The children hardly go to school. Leave this even children from upper caste don’t have proper school. If the school is there then teachers are not there and even teachers are appointed then they hardly come to school. Now a days situation is improving in Nitish Govt and people started to visit the school and there is law and order now and system is coming into its place. Still those who are willing to educate their child in better manner, send them to school in town which is 10 Kms away from village. This is not a case of one village. There are thousands of the villages in India which has the same poor story. The children don’t have access of proper diet in India. How can we even think of proper schooling for all? What happened to those who were SC/ST/OBC had access to schools and were in good economic condition ? I had several friends from school who initially got educated in below average schools and able to complete their graduation,got decent jobs.They were only helped by reservation.They could have achieved without reservations whatever they have achieved , beleive me.May be they could have taken one or two extra years.But they were capable .We never let them felt that they are weak and sick.We have given them same fight and it is true.They were good .But they got undue advantage of reservation system.
My point was that the reservations didn’t helped either. Dr. Kalam said once is very true “increase the number of seats so that even you apply reservations that would not reduce the number of seats for deserving category students”. Whenever the deserving youth was rehabilitant in its way, the government gave them a kick by increasing % of reservation. The people in government have nothing to do with social upliftment. They just want to utilize the SC/ ST /OBC votes to their stability and political benefits.Now the political party even playing a gimmick of giving reservation to upper cast people. The deserving youth has to fight more and struggle more .But they are excelling in Private sector Jobs where skill and personality maters the most.Wo kehte hain na ki "Sona tapne ke baad hi Nikharta hai”.