Reservation: A boon or bane?

There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for
aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country...)
These were the words of Mr. Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro. This statement shows that
how this grave disease of reservation has such deep roots in India that today industrialists are
Category

JEE Main 2015 Cut-off

Score

Common Merit List (CML)

105

Other Backward Class (OBC - NCL)

70

Scheduled Caste (SC)

50

Scheduled Tribe (ST)

44

talking on this. At the inception the concept of reservation was with a noble cause i.e. to
economically and socially uplift the backward classes. But today it has merely become a tool
for the politicians to cater their needs of vote bank. This so called good thing is doing well
neither to the country nor to the citizens of the country. It has only created problems for the
country leading to riots and strikes causing losses of crores of rupees to the government and
no need to mention the mental harassment caused to the masses. (Recent incident need not
mention) It is not only about the losses but due to this menace of reservation the future of
many deserving students go in vain. As per careers 360 this was the cut-off of JEE Main
exams in 2015.

As it is seen the cut-off for different castes are different due to which many deserving
students are not able to get admissions in one of the top-most institutions of India. Thus
reservation is definitely a bane for India which should be banned from the country. To uplift
the socio-economic status of the backward people instead of giving reservation which in fact
is pulling them backwards we should consider them equal and provide them same
opportunities to develop.
Reference: - http://www.engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-2015-cutoff
By: - Summit Gupta
FYBBA-218