FIRST SOME TROUBLING QUESTIONS
Why all these reservations in government jobs?
Why not all be treated as equal?
Why meritorious people are rejected in government jobs and why much less meritorious people are given jobs in name of reservation?
Where will general category people go if 100% Reservations are kept in govt jobs and promotion?
ANSWERS :-
We are paying for sins committed by our ancestors. They believed in caste system. Several caste people were treated UNTOUCHABLE. They were not allowed even to take water from a public well. They were not allowed to study education.
They remained crushed for centuries.
CONEPT OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS
The State should confer extra and special benefits to such crushed people. They should be given jobs so that they can uplift themselves. They should be given better level playing field so that they can compete with BETTER CASTE people.
This is how RESERVATIONS are born.
SOME EVEN MORE TROUBLING QUESTIONS
For how many years, these RESERVATIONS will continue ? What about sons and daughters of IAS, Doctors, Lawyers of Schedule Caste? Why are they being given benefit of reservations when their parents have already procured high positions in society?
SUPREME COURT VIEWS
Supreme Court has already made two things clear :-
1) CREAMY LAYER cannot get benefit of RESERVATIONS. The wards of IAS, Doctors, Lawyers etc etc, even if they belong to category of RESERVED class, they cannot get benefit of reservations.
2) All kinds of RESERVATIONS IN GOVT JOBS SHOULD NOT EXCEED 50%. In other words 50% of jobs must be kept for general category of people.
WHAT CAN BE DONE
WHEN MANY STATES ARE PASSING LAWS TO PROVIDE FOR TOTAL RESERVATIONS MORE THAN 50% and sometimes even more than 77% ?
Understand this. All States are not happy with the directions of Supreme Court to observe ceiling of 50% in total reservations.
Some of them are also not happy with directions of Supreme Court to deny benefits to creamy layers.
So they keep passing laws which are in defiance of judgements of Supreme Court.
THE BURDEN TO FIGHT BACK
It is for General Category Candidates to challenge such laws in courts.
They should not keep wishing that Government will take up their cause and will fight for them.
The Government cannot fight for them because it has political vote bank compulsions.
Burden is on ordinary people to go to court and to complain to Supreme Court or to High Court.
God helps those who help themselves.
Haresh Raichura
17/11/14
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