1000+ Group Discussion Topics with Answers for Engineering Students

No they aren’t:

 Private enterprises being interested in efficiency alone, they do not follow the retrograde policy of reservation. Their sole criterion of selecting people is merit and ability to deliver the goods. This is why they are doing extremely well. But, of late, demands for introducing reservations in private sector as well have been raised from some influential quarters. Should this come about, God save whatever efficiency we still have in at least a few segments of our administration and economy.

The very idea of providing reservations to any segment of the population is based on negatives. It allows for preferential treatment without a thought being given to the callibre or eligibility aspect.

It is really damaging to the nation as a whole that instead of tackling of population problem – over a billion now, and mostly because of the illiterate, backward and superstitious people of backward classes, we give them the lollipop of reservations. A

Further reservation of 27 percent to the other backward classes has aggravated the employment problem and has forned caste animosities and hatred. This retrograde step is not going to do any good to the nation. In the name of social justice an injustice of the worst type is being perpetrated because of accident of birth in higher caste.

By rejecting people of higher competence from general category and accepting the reserved category with lower competence, the reservation policy acts as a disincentive to the meritorious and more capable – thus inhibits healthy growth or development of an individual.

Such brilliant students – victims of unfair favouritism of our reservation policy – get frustrated and leave for foreign countries which favour merit alone.

It is a shame that in this computer and space age we, by institutionalizing our reservation policy, admit that we are a decadent society based on caste. What image does it convey in international field?

The only hope of the children of ordinary families for a better future through education and open to all competitive examination has been shattered by the additional 27 percent job quota for other Backward Class (BC) candidates following acceptance of the Mandal Commission Report. That is why they resorted to agitation and even self immolation but to no avail. It has further fractured our caste ridden society. What an irony that the author of the Mandal Commission Report himself admits that the system followed by the Commission in compiling the list is unscientific.

Yes, they are:

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Swaraj for means freedom for the meanest of our countrymen. I am not interested in freeing India merely from the English yoke. I am bent upon freeing India from any yoke whatsoever.” It goes to prove that Father of the Nation would ensure individual freedom for one and all. Hence reservation is that special privilege which is capable of providing the much cherished individual freedom to one and all.

The obnoxious caste system might have served some purpose when it originated centuries ago but now it is a hindrance to our social progress. The claim of the apologists of caste system that caste was changeable according to merit and competence of the individual and was not strictly hereditary is disproved by the story of Karna in the Mahabharata who, inspite of being equal to or even more in valour skill.

If the Brahmins can work as pujaris and acts as agents of God for all auspicious like births, marriages, deaths etc. as a birth right, why should the Hindu society not view some reservation for backward class people with charity and generosity and prevent the same willingly.

Our constitution lays down equality among equals and not among unequal’s. Through the policy of reservation, our depressed and backward class people are sought to be brought to the status of equality with others.

The depressed and backward class people cannot fare well in an open competition because of centuries of suppression and deprivation, and, hence they cannot develop themselves. In this modern age of knowledge explosion through mass media, they may get alienated from the main stream of our society. This can generate dangerous consequences for the nation as a whole. Therefore, to avoid such an eventuality we should accept our down trodden brethren with an open arm and give them a helping hand in realizing their potential.

Even now the total reservation is only 49.5 percent for about 76.5 percent of the population while over 50 percent seats are available for about 23.5 percent candidates of higher castes. Besides, true social justice can come with a price and reservations are the price that the privileged classes should be willing to pay so that the accident of birth is no more used against their low born brethren.