First and the furious :-)

Okay, so far so good....a lot of discussions and too many points to oppose this "not-making-any-sense" move from the HRD.

Instead of putting so many points to oppose reservation, could somebody enlighten me on why do we need reservation? and if at all, we need, why should somebody whose name has some "XYZ" as his last name should get the privilege and not somebody who doesn't have it, when both of them belong to the same locality, have the same social and economical status and have the same level of inteligence.

Reservation is undoubtedly a good hammer to make all elements of a society grow with an equal pace. But let me remind you that the criterion to choose the benificiary impacts a lot to make it worthwhile in the longer run.

It is good to see that the government has got the motivation to get all the parts of our society at the same economical level and evreybody appreciates this noble intention but is it the way it should have been implemented ?

If I were a the 5th child of a farmer in some remote village of orissa. My village doesn't have electricity and proper water supply, I would never be able to think of going to a primary school. Needless to say that thinking of getting into IIT or IIMs would be a dream for me. On the other hand somebody who lives in a metro city, comes from a very well settled family and to add more to his fortunes, writes "XYZ" as his last name. He will get all the benifits of this 'helpiing-in-social-uplifting' decision of the government and get into IITs/IIMs and I will never get to know what did I miss in my life either because of unawareness and zero exposure to the outer world in my sweet, beautiful village or because of having a lot of other problems to think of than getting into some 'IIT' which nobody in my family have ever heard of.

Today I feel like sitting in a railway compartment, having an RAC ticket, sharing my berth with an equally helpless old guy, while my other fellow passengers are enjoying their long journey in their comfortable places. And the reason : they have got RESERVATION...
My requests to Mr. Singh..

1) Thanks a lot for giving a thought to the issue but please do it for the right cause.
2) Do not worry about your government and your vote bank SIR!!! , if you do the right thing, I will vote for you :-) and if you allow me I might campaign for you as well :-)

Veeresh Shukla
B.Tech IITK (class of 2003)