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From: pankaj@sbcs.UUCP (Pankaj Gupta)
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Subject: Re: In defense of caste-based reservation
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 02:44:34 EDT
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There has been enough rhetoric in this newsgroup regarding caste based
reservations.  Personally I don't have anything against the idea of
caste based reservations.  However our society has done little to
reverse the trend of discrimination against the weaker sections.  Thirty
five years of caste-based reservations have done little to improve
the lot of the scheduled castes as a whole.  S.C. leaders like J. Ram
are more interested in promoting themselves as leaders of their group
rather than bringing about any change in their condition.  And such
politicians are only interested in keeping their parliamentary
constituencies reserved and in extending the caste based reservations
every ten years.  My viewpoint is that it is meaningless to talk about
the merits and demerits of the reservation policy.  If the society does
not discriminate against a certain section then there is no need for
reservations, and if it does then reservations are a poor fix as a solution
for the problem.

Pankaj Gupta
SUNY at StonyBrook