Reservation: Getting branded!

Finally; the day came. The birthday of new betrayal and the anniversary of feeling cheated. Yes; the highest institution of judiciary agreed to ratify the 27 percent quota for OBCs with some loose clauses; like creamy layer etc.
It has sprouted few new questions and rekindled the existent doubts.
Will it be beneficial for the OBCs?
What is the basis of the figure 27 percent?
On which parameters creamy layer would be decided?
Etcetera. Etcetera.
The second question was the basic reason which compelled Supreme court to hold the decision. The institution waited for one year but no genuine account for the figure could be given. Finally, it succumbed to randomness. Someone has well said that 47.6 % of the statistics are randomly generated.
The first question is the most important because it is concerned to the future of a national which is dangling between two economic-classification-jargons; developing and seems-to-be-developed. India. The country of diversity; the country of casteism. A country which satisfies all equations of discrimination. A country which mocks the preamble of its constitution. Words like socialism, fraternity, equality are merely used to obfuscate or to please the readers; to get a feel- good effect. Intellectuals have arrived to the conclusion that the intension of government was not honorable. If the government is really concerned about the situation of OBCs and their backwardness; if it really wants them to be educated, the emphasis must be on primary education. It is claimed that 90 % of the children either do not join primary school or drop out in between. Statistics again. Why the budget of education has been reduced to 3.5 % from 4 % of the GDP? I have an answer; because the GDP is growing at a faster rate and 4 percent of it comes to be a mammoth amount. What’s the need to invest that much for education, we already have 7 IITs, 7 IIMs and N number of NITs (NIT stands for National Institute of technology, though its standard does not allow me to put it along with IIT & IIM but I need something to account for government’s apathy on education.)
The NIT reluctance is another story. The plan was thrashed in cold box just because it was the vision of former Education Minster Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi and his party BJP. It did not fit well in UPA’s common minimum program. In the very first budget of Mr. Manmohan Singh’s government, Mr P chidambram announced a bounty for the construction of new ITIs (ITI stands for Industrial Training Institute) and for the infrastructural development of existing institutes of same category. The fund committed to NITs by BJP government and the vision to upgrade these institutes was deliberately overlooked. It’s not the story of NITs only but IITs have a similar fate. The government has never tried to weight their budget and tried to catapult the academic reputation of the institutes.

Come to the point. Is it true that government remembers Institutes like IITs and IIMs for reservation only? The answer is Yes. It’s not just the Indian Institute of Technology or Indian Institute of Management but brands of India Inc. It’s not just a seat into an institute of national repute but the pass to dream big and the platform to realize it. Today when everyone is running after brands, it’s obvious that an institute where one would be spending his/her one-thirtieth of life must be a branded one. And if it made easy by a government policy anticipate what a package would it be. I know that most of us would not be able to anticipate such situation as we have never been in such a lot which is distinguished. Do not dishearten yourself and wish that the reservation reaches the mass and causes some difference so that our reluctant sacrifice can be recognized. Amen!!