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Before reading this article, answer my simple questions please. From which category you belong? General, SC, ST or OBC? I think I should put different rules and content for different categories. You must get confused by the lines. But if politics of reservation is spreading in all fields of life then this blog should also follow the same. Isn’t it?

Politics of castes is casting its shadow over Indians since long ago. The ongoing Gujjar agitation is the fresh example of the evil of castisms. Over 40 people have already lost their lives demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to get job reservation for their community. NCR and Rajasthan region are highly affected by this show of reservation and quotas. Innocent people are killed for no reason. Violence is spreading behind this politics. Why the Government and opposition are not doing anything? A year ago the Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan resulted in police firing and over 20 deaths.

We humans live on the same Earth, every human have same red blood, and every one has a heart to feel and a mind to think then why to be divided on the basis of this ugly castism. We people travel together in trains and buses. Do you ask the nearby people about their caste before sitting in a train? Our children read together in schools. Do you enquire about the other children’s caste before admitting your child in the school? Then what is the benefit of this system if it is spreading only violence and gives rise to hatred among people?

Political leaders are just making their benefits behind the reservation system. They divide the nation and confirm their profits between others fight. Caste-based reservation is a quick-fix for getting strictly limited political support and it has no real value. The most ironical aspect of this issue is that reservation on the basis of caste is something which even our Constitution does not support. The main motto behind giving the reservation was the development of the poor people, and the original resolution in the Constitution of India was made for 10 year only, but no one revised the status again. Unless there is radical reappraisal of India’s political system and culture, the nation will continue to blunder from crisis to crisis.

There seems no justification for caste based reservations in the educational system. Reservations for the students are making them lazy towards their efforts as they know well that their seat is reserved and will get it easily. Other students who work hard and deserve the seat lose. Is it right justice with them?

Reserved category students get good concessions from the institute. Whatever be their financial status they have to pay only a small amount of money as the fees. But in the same college, a poor student has to pay more just because he or she belongs to General category. Isn’t it unfair?

Yes it is wrong, we all know and abolishing this reservation system only can help the deserving students to get the admissions and needy ones to get the proper concession. Everybody agrees that the caste system is wrong and those who support it do not belong in twenty first century.

Now it is the time to wake up and find the solution of the politics behind the so called reservation system. The problem can be resolved by abolishing the caste system. Why don’t we all unite to be Indians? Is there any need to divide the united nation on the basis of caste?

The young generation of India can only solve this crucial matter. The sooner these shortcomings are abolished the better. Young India is smart and educated. They have power to change. They know their rights and they know the right way of development of their country. They reached up to Moon and Mars by their intelligence. They have made a car which can swim and another which can run at a speed of 250 Km/litre fuel to combat fuel crisis. Then why they do not understand that the reservation system is depleting their nation like a termite.

It is a humble appeal to Young India, government and the Indian politicians to stop usage of politics to divide India on the basis of caste, creed and community and region.

Tags: Caste, Delhi, General, India, OBC, Politics, politics of castes, Rajasthan, reservation system, SC, ST

Setting aside the Calcutta High Court order of staying the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in post graduate courses in IIMs, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected the HC verdict and favored the OBC quota for IIM-C.

“We cannot allow Calcutta High Court order to operate,” a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.

“Can Calcutta High Court sit over the order of the Supreme Court,” the Bench asked while vacating the stay.

Yesterday the Calcutta High Court had stayed quota for OBCs in post-graduate courses in Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Interviews of OBC candidates were halted for the same.

Special interview of OBC students was scheduled by IIM-C following the HRD memorandum.

The interim order of the Calcutta High Court stayed till June 09 the operation of the reservation clause of IIM prospectus and also the resolution of office memorandum dated April 20, 2008 passed by the HRD Ministry.

Announcing the decision today, SC said that however, all admissions will be provisional in post graduate courses in Central educational institutions under the Act before the final outcome.

It also issued notice to those petitioners who were opposing the implementation of government memorandum in different high courts on the Center’s petition seeking transfer of those matters to the apex court.

Tags: Calcutta, High Court, IIM, Kolkata, OBC, SC, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the government to reinstate eminent cardiologist P. Venugopal as director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) rejecting the law seeking his removal as AIIMS director after a raging row with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

“I am happy that the Supreme Court has upheld the truth,” Venugopal said.

The bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and H.S. Bedi also declared as “malafide and unconstitutional” the union government’s law that fixed the retirement age of the AIIMS director at 65 years.

This amendment was passed in November 2007 after which Venugopal was removed. Against this decision Venugopal challenged the law in SC. It was today when SC strikes down AIIMS amendments and reinstates him to take over as the Director later in the day.

While Venugopal did not talk to the reporters directly, he conveyed his reaction to them through senior resident doctor Anil Sharma.

“The decision has thwarted the game-plan carried out in parliament,” Sharma said quoting Venugopal, who made no direct reference to Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss with whom he had a bitter row.

The resident doctors association of the hospital, which has been backing Venugopal in his tussle with Ramadoss, maintained that he would back in office as soon as possible.

“This is a victory of truth. It is a victory of the people of the country. Ramadoss is responsible for the entire fiasco and he should resign,” said Kaushal Kant Mishra, spokesperson for the Resident Doctors Association.

“This judgment of the Supreme Court has clearly sent a message that please don’t interfere with the functioning of the autonomous institutions and don’t tinker with the intellectuals who have given their life to build up these institutions,” said Mahendra Singh, Venugopal`s lawyer.

AIIMS Faculty Association president Dr Vinod Khaitan said Venugopal has become the symbol of the dignity of the medical fraternity and demanded the resignation of Ramadoss.

“It is very rarely that a parliament act is struck down by the Supreme Court. And he (Ramadoss) wanted to remove one person who became the symbol of autonomy of AIIMS, Dr Venugopal,” Khaitan said.

“It is not becoming of the Health Minister, so he must resign,” he said.

Former union health minister Sushma Swaraj is also asking Ramadoss to resign from his post following the verdict.

On the other side Ramadoss was shocked with the unexpected verdict. He said that there is no question of his resigning over the SC verdict.

Tags: AIIMS, Minister, Ramadoss, SC, Supremem Court, Venugopal

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the Supreme Court to inquire into cases of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, has arrested an accused, Parbat Thakore in the Godhara Carnage. Official sources informed that he is arrested on Saturday from Banaskantha district and accused of being involved in the case.

Six years back, 39 people were killed in Gulbarg society including Congress Member of Parliament Ehsan Jaffri. The five-member team led by former Central Bureau of Investigation director R.K. Raghavan on April 8 visited the house of slain Congress Member.

The team also comprises three Gujarat IPS officers Geetha Johri, Shivanand Jha, and Ashish Bhatia and C B Satpathy, former director general of the Uttar Pradesh police.

The reinvestigation of the cases of communal carnage by SIT was conducted after petitions filed in the apex court. The communal carnage that broke out following the burning of 59 Hindu activists in a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002 killed at least 1000 people in violence.

The team is given a 3 month deadline to prepare the reports and submit to Supreme Court.

Tags: Godhra, Godhra Riots, SC

Medical Colleges have decided to fix two years timeline to implement the recent judgment of SC of reservation of 27 per cent seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) while all the IITs and the IIMs will take three years deadline.

A meeting was held among the minister for Health and Family Welfare, Anbumani Ramadoss, top officials of the health ministry and officials of leading medical institutes, who discussed the issue and decided that all the medical colleges aided by the centre’s exchequer will set aside 18 per cent of total seats for OBC candidates from the next academic session and the complete implementation of 27 per cent quota for the OBC candidates will be done in two years time frame.

AIIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College (all in New Delhi), the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI), Chandigarh, and Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry are the institutes which will implement the quota.

“It was decided to implement the quota by 18 percent of the total 27 percent prescribed in the reservation law. There is no infrastructure problem on our part. The minister is happy and we will go head with quota in a phased manner,” N.K. Chaturvedi, the medical superintendent of RML said.

It was in 2006 when the Parliament had passed a bill granting for 27 per cent reservation to the OBC candidates in government aided institutes of higher learning which was challenged in the Supreme Court.

Last week SC gave its grant to the approval excluding the ‘creamy layer’ from the reservation quota.

Tags: Health, Ramadoss, SC

310 SC and 155 ST students will be benefit by introduction of reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates for admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses from this year under the All India entrance examination. The central government decided to reserve 15 per cent quota for SC and 7.5 per cent for ST students in the medical exams conducted by CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education).

The Union Health Ministry has issued direction to the Director General of Health Services to implement this decision.

There are 2075 seats of MBBS/BDS last year, which were filled up on the basis of merit only without any reservation. Seats in government medical and dental colleges across the country that are under the All India quota are filled up on the basis of the All India Entrance Examination.

The Health Ministry has filed application in this regard which is accepted by the Supreme Court and is left it to the centre to take a policy decision in this regard.

Last year, reservation is introduced in PG courses at All India entrance exams on the demand of Health Ministry which is also going to be continued. Total 1184 SC/ST students will benefit in both undergraduate and PG courses under the new scheme of reservation.

Preliminary test for All India entrance exam of CBSE will be held on April 6 and the final will be on May 11.

Tags: India, Reservation, SC, ST