The Supreme court of India today passed a verdict that will change an existing education system for the worst according to most of the student population which will be affected by this, but for the best according to the government which enforced this rule. Reservation in IIT's and IIM's the premier Engineering and Management institutions of the nation respectively has just shot up to a very insignificant share : 49.5 % . For a detailed news article you can probably go here . Prime time News channels must be running their debates and polls on this as I write and heated debates must be on at various points across the nation. The 500 page verdict thankfully does not try and impose this rule in private institutions, like this one from where I am going to recieve my graduation certificate (which the government wanted to by the way).

Reservations were introduced in the constitution by Dr.B.R Ambedkar, currently hailed as the father of Dalits and The SC's and ST's. I do not think he intended it to grow into this "vote bank politics" scheme of things as it runs now. The idea was to roll back reservations 50 years after independence because that was the entire point behind the scheme. India had made a plan to move ahead by making sure that there are no longer backward people 50 years from then. But today, we keep moving backward. I hope I am not attributing the following quote wrongly to Mr.Narayana Murthy " India is the only country where people want to be called backward and proud of it " . It just about explains the scenario. No government today would risk losing its chance of winning the next general elections by modifying the existing reservation scenario for the "forward " movement of the nation.

Sadly. all this is leading to a very disheartening situation. The worst hit are students whose best efforts to make it to the best colleges is being thwarted by the government's moves. Many deserving students are missing their chance to get the best education that the nation can provide them.How can we call these the best institutes of the nation if it does not provide fair grounds for students to gain entry to it ? How can their quality of education be judged if they are not providing it to the best brains in the country ? How can India with all this complain about Brain Drain ? How can students who have been deprived of good education be the pillars of the nation tomorrow ? Above all this, How can this "reserved " candidates live upto the standards of others if they are given a concession to make it there in the first place ? How can these "special" ones be the best equipped to put to use the so called advanced infrastructure that the government has established? Will the IIT's and IIM's have the same respect as before in the world outside if 51.1 % students are of one standard and the other 49.9% at a different plane ?( On the lighter side , will intros in IIT carry "Merit/Reserved Quota" from this year ? )

Getting down to the "better" part of the ruling, the "creamy layer" of the OBC's have been excluded from this judgement. But,does this really affect the process at all ? A majority of
these "categories" are in the government sectors, mostly again by the concession that the government provides for them in their jobs. A few others maybe in the business sector. Both fields where the actual "status" might be Below-the-poverty line according to their salary certificates/ affidavits while they live in bungalows with the most posh of facilities. Will the college facilities visit each home to determine whether they are "creamy" or "dirty" ?


The government seems to be making a concession for the special ones at every walk of their lives right from their moment they are born. They have backdoor entries into the premier institutes , government jobs and even promotions in them. How can the nation then blame the educated for failing to contribute to the nation when all that they do is push us backward and backward. Not all of us will be what SRK was in Swades - none of us are willing to do anything for the street we live in, leave alone the nation.


My intentions is not to state that "I am Proud to be a BITSIAN" .Sadly In Fact , at this point of time it is to state that I am not proud of being an Indian.