Brace yourself up for a time when there would not be this sort of reservation

By O.J.George

A division bench of Kerala has spoken up, there should be serious thoughts on the sort of reservation that is in place.

A lot of people would be surprised, aghast, and depressed about the clarity of the suggestions contained in the court verdict.But then there are others who agree with the court.

If people thought that the sort of reservation now enjoyed by certain people would go on like this till the end of the world, that is proved wrong by the obiter dictum of the court.

One day or the other there would be a rethinking into the quota system. The court had said reservation benefits were something enjoyed by the people for the first 50 years and then extended to another 10 years. This is not something that is Consitutionally devolved for eternity.

Reservation benefits-enjoyers and their families should make strenuous efforts to acquire abilities to compete with others in the world.

Those who don’t have the financial wherewithal should be given all helping hand by the government. Affirmative action that would make the standards go up should be the tool in future. But all should also compete.

Financial reservation, job reservation, promotion reservation, admission reservation and the like cannot go on for eternity.

The socially, educationally and economically backward should not wallow in a state of perfunctory bliss from the automatic benefits devolving on them. They should also put in some efforts to come up on their own.

Anyway, now there can be no going back on the reservation benefits bestowed by Parliament for 60 years.

The issue will definitely come up in the future when the economically backward among the forward castes would have to be considered for justice being dispensed to them.