Originally posted by pogo
Exactly! Reservation is meant for those who are denied opportunities to education, wealth and power. Applies to both women and backward classes.
Government introduced reservation with a view to uplift the oppressed, downtrodden sections of the society, but only a small minority of people from backward classes got benefited by such measures. Vast majority of them still remain oppressed.
Government has introduced free education for all. But large part of the the backward class population are still denied this right to education. In many backward regions of our country, even today, members of the upper castes dont allow children of lower caste people to sit and study together with their children in public schools. Most backward caste parents are so poor that they cant even find enough food for their children, so how are they going to send then to school? Also the children are forced to work and earn for their families. India is still the country with largest number of child labourers in the world.
Coming to girls, in the backward regions, plight of girl children belonging to upper castes is not different from that of their lowercaste counterparts. Girls are forced to stay home and do all the household chores while there brothers go to school. You find large number of girl children, working as domestic servants in rural India. What is happening today is, like 'blue ice' behna pointed out in the other thread, reserved seats are cornered by the affluent minority from the backward classes. Same is going to happen regarding women reservation.
The affluent women will grab all the seats and they wont in anyway help the upliftment of the downtrodden women as these elite ones are ignorant and dont care about multitudes of problems faced by the average rural women of India. Best example is Sushma Swaraj, who just serves as a puppet in the hands of her party leaders.
Do you have data to prove that the OBCs and SC\STs were not benefitted by the reservation?
I had said earlier that if reservation is monitored financially then it will lead to lot of corruption and in country like India, it is next to impossible.
And for women reservation even if it takes a little time to reach poor, then also I am for it.
Edited by Sherraz - 14 years ago