A just solution

What can be a just solution to the present stalement. People have to suffer during any social transition because of change in social policies. The present nationwide protest by students against the proposed reservation policy are just a reflection of this fact. How can one expect the youngster to suffer silently the follies their elders commited years ago?

The politicians in the past fifty years or so are to be blamed. They were all the time busy lining their pockets and promoting their progeny at the cost of millions of under privilaged people.

One can rightfully ask, why there are so few so elite institutions today. Why more institutions of similar merit were not created, keeping in mind their demand?

The answers are self evident.

So, a possible just solution would be,

1, To create many more opportunities for the youngsters belonging to backward communities. These opportunities have to be in the form of institutions that can compare with the best in the country in terms of infrastructure and the teaching faculty. After all, an educational institution becomes elite only because of its teachers, and the facilities it provides to the students.

2. These institutions should be designed keeping in mind the social enginnering goals of the government.

Since they would start afresh there cannot be any protests from their alumni or present students. There is no lack of good people in the country who do not suffer the upper caste biases!

The solution often offered by people belonging to the uppercastes, viz that reservations should be limited to one generation only is not really just.

Let me say a few lines why I think so.

The so called intelligence of the youngsters belonging to the UC's is not because of their superior genes. A lot of credit goes to the previlages their parents and grandparents enjoyed for ages. The so called merit has its roots in their upbringing and the environment in which they were brought up. Most children belonging to the LC's suffer frm the handicap that the home/social environment in which they are reared are no match to those of the OBC's. This environment does not come up, just because a person is given a job in some enterprise, it comes only after several generations have enjoyed those privilages.