A proposal: ‘One
Time Reservation Policy’
'I love India.
We love India' is the slogan we use to chant frequently or at least on
auspicious occasions like Independence Day. And more frequently we grudge about
problems in India. But how can we make a better India? Some basic things like
infrastructure, a better education system, medical facilities and disciplined
citizen through proper law and order are no doubt the chart-buster requirements
for any country. All these requirements need to be governed and managed by a talented
pool of people at every level of hierarchy of public and private sector. And we
Indians do not have dearth of talent. Believe me. Then why do we lag? What is
the show stopper?
Well my belief
is we have to improve on lot of areas but one thing which really worries me as
I think this is the cancer to our growth is reservation based on caste system.
I know many of us will argue and say that for 'inclusive' growth we need to
bring forward every 'class' so that they could be a part of the mainstream of
development. Reservation was brought up in picture no doubt so that the
unprivileged and backward people should get an ancillary support and hence
could grow at a smoother pace. To ensure that other classes of society do not
suffer it was promised that the percentage of reservation will be gradually
increased and then decreased in phases. But promises are meant to be broken is
what out hypocrites think.
As this is very old problem I must not pore in
all the old facts because everybody is aware of these things. What I want to
project is that we cannot afford to comprise with talent neither can we ignore
our unprivileged people .So we have to do a trade-off between them so that no
body suffers.
So here is a
solution I propose for this problem. I think the class of people who are
identified for reservation should get a ONE TIME RESERVATION. By one time
reservation I mean that every eligible person for reservation should get
reservation either in education or in job or in promotions .The concept is
simple. If a person is given reservation in education that means now he is as
much privileged as any other person and remains no more backward in terms of
educational facilities. He is now on the same platform on which others are and
now he does not require additional help for fetching a suitable job for him.
Let’s take another case of a person who thinks he should utilize his one-time
opportunity for bread and butter. Because he has not taken any favour from
government in education in terms of reservation, he is still under- privileged
.He needs some support from government for fetching a job and government in turns
gives him reservation in job. Same is the case if the person wants to go with
reservation in promotions.
Now we may doubt
how we can ensure that a person is availing reservation only once. That could
have been a problem but as we know a unique identity system project is under process
which is of real help in this case. Once a person avails reservation his record
will be updated and he will not be eligible for the next time.
.
This system can
be made more useful for general and backward classes. Eg. Presently suppose we
have 50% reservation in total and if we reduce it to 40% it will help the
general class people.
Because 40 %
people who have taken reservation in education are not eligible for reservation
in job will open door for another backward people for apply for 40% reservation
in job. This will be also a kind of speedy treatment to our
underprivileged people as we would be able to cover wider section of our
society even if we reduce the total percentage from 50 to 40.
Submitted By: Vivek Pandey
Goa Institute of Management 
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