obc voice

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Will they close down the IITs/IIMs and JNU etc.,?

Now that it seems almost impossible that OBCs would be admitted to centrally run educational institutions this year, and the future doesn't seem too rosy either for students from these castes, one question that, you'll notice, nobody asks...needs to be asked:

Will all admissions at all centrally run higher educational institutions be stopped? Will they close down the IITs/IIMs, Delhi University and JNU etc., until the issue of admissions of the OBC students is resolved? Because how can the government or the courts permit the functioning of institutions that cater only to a few castes in the country and exclude the great majority?

The Supreme Court hasn't ruled out the need for reservations which indicates that it recognizes the fact that many sections of the population aren't represented in these institutions. So how can the government continue to run these institutions that serve so obviously parochial needs? Do only the upper castes in the country have a right to equality and the others don't? And if the lower castes aren't to be admitted into these institutions until the issue is resolved, how can the upper castes be admitted? And how can these institutions still remain public institutions if only upper caste students would be admitted?

In this post, I'd said: 'But crudely put , the government owns them. And they were started with the objective of providing quality education to the people of India. Certain sections of the people were not represented- so they're claiming their share now. Their share, please note.' Which is their right. And these rights, whatever the reasons/pretexts, have been violated for the last sixty years in centrally-run educational institutions. And in most state-run institutions for lesser, but not less critical, periods of time. Now that the violation has been acknowledged, I repeat, should these institutions be allowed to continue to violate these rights? Shouldn't they be closed down until a fairer admissions policy, that reflects an accurate picture of the current demographic composition of the country and meets the very exacting, very objective standards of the courts, is installed?

That won't happen- no upper caste student/job applicant was ever stopped from being admitted/recruited because a new policy of reservations was being questioned in the courts. No academic years were lost, no upper caste applicant was refused a job he'd been selected for because the issue was in the courts. Their rights are important, inviolable - the rights of the lower castes on the other hand are not. Their aspirations, their disappointments can be ignored. Their efforts and their time- well, beggars can't be choosers. They can't choose the time they will be served, right?

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the view held by the establishment, the ruling upper castes, that the lower castes shouldn't entertain any wrong notions about rights and all that rot. And be grateful for whatever crumbs, bheekh, khairat is thrown their way. Or not thrown.

10 Comments:

At 4:09 AM, Blogger ASA said...

The Supreme court is not interested in serving justice but it is aimed to preserve the upper caste hegemony and fight for their domination. Delivering justice is not the basic issue, the aim is to ensure that people from lower castes remain at the bottom of the heap.

 
At 5:19 AM, Blogger obc voice said...

'Delivering justice is not the basic issue, the aim is to ensure that people from lower castes remain at the bottom of the heap.'

exactly. the implications of this order have to be properly understood by the lower castes... they should start realizing the hollowness of their 'citizenship'.

 
At 11:16 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

you wud give Joseph Goebbels a run for his money in Propaganda

 
At 12:07 PM, Blogger obc voice said...

anonymous,

do you find the truth so very bitter to swallow?

 
At 10:59 PM, Blogger ASA said...

Liste to what Pratap Bhanu Mehta says in Indian Esxpress " Let them Have Scholarships", as if he is god and OBCs are beggars. The time has now come to overturn this fraud intellectualism and call spade a spade. People like these are enemies not only of the lower castes but even of this country.

 
At 11:39 AM, Blogger obc voice said...

mineguruji,

'Let them have scholarships'.

didn't someone famous say that 'let them eat cake'?

mehta has 'reserved' a place for himself along side some very distasteful characters.

 
At 2:07 AM, Blogger ரவி ஸ்ரீநிவாஸ் said...

Nothing prevents OBCs from
getting admissions into IITs,IIMs.Are there no OBC students there.Is it not a fact
that OBCs dominate universities
in tamil nadu because of the absurd
quota system.Read what Sattanathan Commission and Ambasankar Commission wrote about creamy layer
among OBCs.

 
At 5:29 AM, Blogger obc voice said...

ravi srinivas,

if nothing prevents the obcs from getting admissions, there must already be adequate obc representation in those institutions, right?

 
At 12:44 AM, Blogger little_saturn said...

Government spends. Whose money. MOney paid by the tax. Then let there be reservation on the basis of tax paid as those who contribute more to the kitty requires to get better representation. Even in a house, the person who bears the expenses of the house get the higher respect.

Why does the logic does not go into the thick heads on pro - reservation on what is backwards.

Backward by economic status or by caste. I can tell u there a tons of forward class people who live as beggers. So deny them there rights and punish them for the mistake of their parents. great social justice

 
At 10:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear OBC Voice
The basic principle of reservation is right - providing education for underpriveleged classes of our country. But these should be applied at the lowest level of the school system. You try pushing an unqualified applicant into institutes like IIT or IIM or AIIMS, and you can literally see them suffer because they cannot cope with the pressure - simply because their basics are poor. You just CANNOT mess with higher education - it lowers the educational standard of the country - and our country, now starting to getting back to its old glory, just cannot afford to lose its way with some silly reservation system for unqualified or underqualified people.
Also, please tell me - if I am a student of a higher caste, and I have received higher marks than an SC/ST or an OBC candidate, how, possibly, could I accept my admission form being rejected and that student's being accepted at a top institute ? Should I not realize the hollownes of my citizenship - to quote you ?

 

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