It's about time we did our reservations based on some other criteria, though it sounds similar to most right wing lunatics, misinformed general category citizens, my reasons are different, its not because it gives them an "unfair" advantage, as that is the whole point of reservations, is to give them a head start, to give them a walking stick to balance themselves as centuries old system of discrimination has visibly lamed them, so it is not in anyway unfair, but dosen't reservation based on castes propagate castes, the system that put them there in the first place?.
If the whole idea of the reservations is to try to erase their economical, cultural, and social disadvantages, can't they be based on those criteria alone, for eg: 1)people from poor background, 2) people living in slums, 3) people with illitrate parents, people having all three criteria as the most underdeveloped and with one of these as comparitively underdeveloped, this will include all the people from the castes, who need real help, we are not taking away their reservations just scrubbing out the dirty caste identity, that the unfair system had previously given them. So there is no way racist and castist elements to distinguish us, we all become more closer.
There will still be people crying unfair, but atleast we will have with us an resonable argument and statistics, as to why it is done and how it will improve them, not just references to history.
Governments should also stop giving caste and community certificates, it actually makes an unfair system look official, and communities and castes are personal preferences, why install them in to governments? (We are supposed to be secular ), and should also raise taxes monstrously for matrimonial organization, that provide caste based martial services. If we want to destroy the system effectively, we should actively try to destroy it.
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