The Con'gress plan for our educational institutions

Last decade, VP Singh was the Prime Minister of India for a short time, I dont even remember what alliance he belonged to at the time, but there was a commission, whose report came out around that time,called the Mandal Commission. I was too young to know what it was then, except i remember it created a lot of heat all around the country and our school was forcefully shut down for a whole month, I think sometime in October.

So now that shits rearing its head again, and the despicable, traitorous Congress bent on destroying the integrity and professionalism of our higher institutes of learning, I am going to look behind me and see what that Mandal was about.

The committee was formed in 1980, headed by MP B.P. Mandal, who came out with a report on the upliftment of the lower castes of the Indian society, recommending exclusive posts for them in the Government and reserved seats in major educational institutions.

More than a decade after it came out, VP Singh decided to implement it, and it led to his Government's fall. The criticism is simple, and I agree with this notion too that you can't try to create equality by providing privelages to sections of the society based on their caste. This leads to an unhealthy societal relations and creates resentment among those who are not a part of the deal.

There is no doubt that the underprivelaged castes, as unfortunate as it is that they are still sometimes discriminated against, need our support and respect, this is not the right way to do it. Rather, I have said it, and so have many others, that rather than providing reservations, which will greatly hurt the quality of students coming in, why not provide scholarships and cheap loans to underprivelaged children, and help them get into coaching institutes of repute, thus providing an equal platform for them to compete with the rest to give the JEE.

But that can't happen, and the Gandhi Butler, and oldhead, Arjun Singh doesnt seem to know what he is doing. Actually, he does know what he is doing. As far as I remember, ever since the Con'gress has been in power, the HRD ministry has been indulging in some nice vote bank policies. These bastards talked of providing reservation in the private sector. As ridiculous as the idea is, they wanted to implement it. Dancing to a filmi song in Davos is all fine and dandy but when you act like anti-national bastards at home, it really doesnt help in getting foreign business in. Arjun Singh wants to bring in almost 50% reservations in the IITs/IIMs, and pretty much the same in universities like University of Delhi. The new deal is that there is an additional 27% reservation for the OBC's, or other backward castes, which'll take the reservation to close to 50%. Rest in Peace, Indian progress.

Lets see what this article from Outlook magazine as to say....

Populism as Policy

Take the latest controversy over the "new policy" that would take the overall reservation in the central government-funded higher education institutions -- including IITs and IIMs -- from the current 22.5 (for SC and ST students) to 49.5 per cent in all, with an extra 27 per cent for the OBCs.

Sri Arjun Singh, since he makes such a production of playing by the letter of the law, first kicked it off by publicly stating that his ministry would announce the decision after the completion of the assembly polls in five states. So why bring it up now? The party nominally considered the principal opposition seemed to provide an answer: "What the Congress-led government is doing is a mere political stunt, a fraud on the poor people by selectively leaking the proposal when there are elections in five states".

And all this at a time when the IITs and IIMs are already suffering and suffocating under an HRD ministry that ironically somehow always seems to be headed by those who could do with some human resource development themselves.

what is most bizarre is that the current controversy should have erupted when such eminently sane and articulate advice as that from the member-convenor of the high-profile National Knowledge Commission (NKC), which reports directly to the prime minister, is available.

It is heartening therefore to read about the exchange of mails among the NKC members, beginning with the e-mail from Pratap Bhanu Mehta which, terming the Arjun Singh pronouncement as a "distressing development" exhorted all members to protest the proposals: "These is no point having the Commission if we don't take a stand on this issue."

Mehta then listed three main points to protest to the PM: "First, the new proposals are incompatible with promoting excellence and autonomy. Second, the access to education should be distributed widely across social groups, but 49 pc reserved seats is a step in the wrong direction. At the moment, measures are in place for SCs/STs and these should not be supplemented by reservation for OBCs. This is an opportunity to think afresh on this issue and not rush into introducing measures that we know are irreversible."
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Right now the only thing holding these traitors back is the assembly polls in 5 states. As for the Opposition, well, they have truly lost their minds. Instead of arguing against such government policies, he would rather take a 'rath yatra'. Apparently some things never change, and the lack of farsight in our politicians is one of them.

OBC Quota: Its Mandal revisited

Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh may claim that it's just a proposal, but UPA Government's attempts to increase reservations from the present 22.5 per cent to 49.5 per cent in prestigious educational institutes like Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and other institutes of higher education, is brewing up a storm.

In what seems like a repeat of the infamous Mandal politics of 1990s, students have reacted with shock and anger at Arjun Singh's proposals.

Political hobnobbing, too, has begun and Opposition parties are going all out to draw mileage out of what they say is a violation of the Election Commission's code of conduct.

But even as the worried students mobilise support, political battlelines are clearly drawn.

However, for once, the Samajwadi Party finds itself on the same side as the Congress.

"I have been involved in the movement from the 80s. And we should have the reservations," SP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, said.

The BJP, obviously sensing immediate political gain from the move, has said that if the proposal comes into effect, it will be in violation of the Election Commission's code of conduct.

But with UP elections due next year, the politics of reservation is clearly aimed at OBC vote bank appeasement.

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Reservation will divide India: Tata

"Bad" was what Tata had to say on the Centre's move to introduce reservation in the Indian Institutes of Management and the Indian Institutes of Technology, and other like institutes.

He also opposed a call for job reservation in the private sector.

Tata, who headed the Investment Commission set up by the United Progressive Alliance regime, said: "Though I do not want to comment on it (reservation), it is bad. In some way, it will tend to divide the country into different groups."

Congress general secretary Margaret Alva on Saturday admitted that reservation in central educational institutions would affect bright students but the measure was taken to give "equal" opportunity to students from backward classes.

"It is true that a section of bright students will be affected because the number of general seats will come down.
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With die caste, campuses on the boil

Mandal’s back to haunt the nation. The prospect of an additional 27% OBC quota (over and above the 22.5% for SC/ST) looming large, IITs have gone into war mode and universities and colleges across the country are ready to follow suit.

An urgent students’ meeting was held at IIT Delhi on Friday to discuss the course of action. A protest march by the alumni of all seven IITs sometime next week is already on the cards.

Backroom activity is in full swing. Indignation over the notion of birth taking precedence over merit is hard to digest in the country’s premier technical institutes.

"Students who do not get into an IIT on merit find it hard to keep up. Getting in is just step one, the real struggle begins only after the first class."

The view is supported by Prof G Padmanabhan, former director of the Indian Institute of Science. "The government should lay emphasis on adequate coaching so that students can compete better. Reservation may not be conducive for requirements of merit."

Aggressive SMS campaigns, animated debates during tea-breaks and plans to file PILs after exams abound at the Delhi University campus.

In Kolkata, while most students said they were not in favour of more reservations for this might make "life difficult for talented, deserving youngsters", colleges and universities took a cautious approach.

Officials of Presidency College — the city’s most prestigious institution — urged the government to take a look at the present scenario before implementing the recommendations.

The pitch of opposition, however, is not as strong as it was in former PM V P Singh’s time. There are supporters too.
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Look, i know there are underprivelaged people in the country, and the way the governments have tried to uplift them over the years have not helped one bit. With every policy that any government ever brings out to protect and uplift the underprivelaged, their sole concern has always been to ensure that group's votes are secured.

A politician is a politician is a devious hyena. They stand for nobody but themselves, and I think we should start seeing through their farce and actually question some of their policies.