Does the Government or the Political set-up of this Country have the guts and the political will to abolish and strike out this system of “caste” based reservation in one swift final blow. Well I certainly am into wishful thinking. Definitely NOT, it most definitely would be a political hara-kiri, and no one party would ever bell this big cat ever. Reservation which was started when it was started by the stalwarts of yester years did so with all the well meaning intentions. However the error in judgement that they comitted was by keeping this open ended. The policy should most definitely have been with a close ended deadline of 30 – 50 years. It would have been a sufficient enough period which would have allowed at least two generations of the “backward” community to uplift themselves within the time-frame given the opportunity. Instead today it has became a matter of right somewhat like a democratic right, something which has come to a state of birth right of the “backward” community. Even though the class divide today is more from an economic perspective rather than a caste divide. Paradoxically, we on one hand want to abolish the caste system and keep making such observations and hold conclaves etc, while on the other hand keep it alive by keeping the practice of reservations intact.

Has the political or bureaucratic set-up ever bothered to monitor or collect and analyze the data of how much positive impact this system of reservation has had? To what strata of society does the people who use this system actually belong?
We may be neighbours living in the same apartment block. But when it comes to “admissions” thy neighbour’s child does hold the ace – a Backward Caste Certificate, despite having performed way below par than his classmates. Such is the practical use or mis-use of the system of Reservation.

Yes the Government should have a very strong socio-economic policy for the upliftment of the poor or the citizens living in the lower strata of the society, but it should not be based on caste or creed, but be drawn on the people who live below the poverty line. Poverty does not differentiate between different caste, so why should the Government? The entire policy needs to be relooked, re-drafted and re-implemented. If India should attain the position of relevance and play a significant and vocal role then it needs to alleviate poverty and not stoke the fires of casteism and reservations just to keep political ambitions alive.