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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: More on reservations and caste ...
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 08:17:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 08:17:26 1985
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Well, the question of whether or not there should be caste-based
reservations seems to have been hacked to death here.  One question in my
original article which I don't recall having seen answered in the debate,
however, is that of the extent of such reservations.

Ostensibly, the reason for such reservations/quotas is to give the
deserving underpriveleged/oppressed a helping hand.  Presumably, after
enough helping, equality would be achieved (that's the whole idea, isn't
it?).  But from what I see, an SC can start out with reserved seats in
school, continue to reserved seats in college (so far so good), get a job
on reservations, get promoted on reservations ... until he retires!  My
feeling is that once this guy's graduated from college with a bachelor's,
there's no obvious reason why he should be considered any more handicapped
than the next person with a bachelor's, and that reservations should not
continue after college/university admissions (unless, of course, what we
really want is to create a class of latter-day Brahmins).  Comments?
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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