All sorts of reservation policies are tried in our nation. There is reservation for employment, reservation for admission to institutes of higher education, reservation for membership of a parliament seat, reservation for eligibility on accommodation in the train, etc., etc.
Scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, backward classes, women, residents of a particular state, poor, all are supposed to get the benefit of reservation. Discrimination based on gender, caste, economic status, domicile, religion, etc., is expected to vanish with adaptation of the reservation policy.
The fact is, in spite of living half a century with reservation, discrimination stares at us from all angles. It is exploited by different people for different selfish reasons. We still have untouchables who cannot draw water from a well. We have violence against Indians because they moved out of their state. We still have poor dying of hunger.
We are in this state because we are still not aware. We are still not educated. Specially the women, the architects of society. I wonder why India cannot have a much more liberal reservation policy for education? Why cannot we have hundred per cent reservation for education? Let every Indian, be she or he of any caste, religion, economic group, and state, have a seat reserved in a school, in a college, in an institute of higher learning. If we do not have enough resources to fund education for all, let us obtain it through a penalty on all bundhs and activities of damage to public property and peace.
Unless we take a revolutionary step in educating ourselves, we will not be able to build a strong India.
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