Stop Caste based discrimination
Originally shared by KIRON KRISHNAN
Stop Caste based discrimination
The plight of caste system discrimination is torturing India.
The reserved communities are lazy, and actual worthy people are denied opportunities.
Should not the caste based system of discrimination be changed to an economic perspective?
It is the nasty vote bank politics that is behind all these kind of crude practices. The non upper castes form majority, and they determine the government.
I do not know in which other country would a person with 58000 rank share the same class with the 1000 ranker in a top competitive college (no. of appears : just 150,000) just because he was born into a such and such caste.
Even in the last years allotment list of Kerala Engineering Entrance, you find that the last rank in First Allotment for a general candidate for Computer science engineering in the most prestigious engineering college in Kerala under this exam, the CET, is 154 (General includes all religious groups and upper castes other than the favoured ones) while the last rank for a "Scheduled Caste" is 7336, and that for a Scheduled Tribe is 34682.
In the last allotment, the data is :
GEN : 714, Scheduled Caste : 31,986.
[Courtesy : http://www.cee-kerala.org/docs/keam2015/allot/p3/last_rank_p3.pdf]
And the twist is that no general candidate can hope to get a seat even in an ordinary government college if his rank is above 10000, and these people who have 30000+ ranks are getting seats in the most prestigious college in state just because they are born into a caste.
Isn't today's discrimination denial of human rights?
One should note that economy should be considered, rather than family, for determining the privileges given to a group. The same hypocrites who talk of "no caste" are in fact supporting the caste discrimination.
This kind of vote bank politics and the tormenting of minority (Brahmins only form 5% of the total population) should be checked.
No caste deserves "special rights" because they were born into a family.
The aftermath is that the poor people of the same "reserved" castes do not get the benefits of the reservation, just because they live in an undeveloped area, while the well to do people in urban areas are enjoying the unworthy status.
Instead of improving the condition of people in rural areas, government tries to see people as castes, assuming a blind equation of caste and economy, without considering the actual stats of geography, economy and facts.
The failure of the concept is well noticeable in the stats of the population, and the thoughtlessness is revealed from the "reservation plights" made by the modern communities.
Ironically, the Brahmins are only 5% in the whole India, and half of them still earn less than $100 a month, not because they do not study, not because they do not have the passion to study, but they are denied opportunities just because they are born into Brahmin family.
And one must note that Brahmins had no other "hereditary job" than learning and rituals. The other castes have a lot options before them - the continuation of the traditional business, the traditional occupation or agriculture and lots.. if they do not get the academic expectations... but as Brahmins have not been historically been in any of these, and their shares have been purged off from the society, a hopeless Brahmin has no other choice but to live poor, in poor conditions. And none sympathises with the minority.
How birth determines your fate in India!
In this century!
And what about the favoured communities? At 70 years after independence of India? Did the poor among them have any significant development just because of the caste system discrimination practised now?
How many of the "scheduled tribes" in rural areas have reaped the fruits?
Again, the economy has NOTHING got to do with caste in the present situation. At least, that is what the statistical reports tell us.
Sajjeev Antony
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119889387595256961
Stop Caste based discrimination
The plight of caste system discrimination is torturing India.
The reserved communities are lazy, and actual worthy people are denied opportunities.
Should not the caste based system of discrimination be changed to an economic perspective?
It is the nasty vote bank politics that is behind all these kind of crude practices. The non upper castes form majority, and they determine the government.
I do not know in which other country would a person with 58000 rank share the same class with the 1000 ranker in a top competitive college (no. of appears : just 150,000) just because he was born into a such and such caste.
Even in the last years allotment list of Kerala Engineering Entrance, you find that the last rank in First Allotment for a general candidate for Computer science engineering in the most prestigious engineering college in Kerala under this exam, the CET, is 154 (General includes all religious groups and upper castes other than the favoured ones) while the last rank for a "Scheduled Caste" is 7336, and that for a Scheduled Tribe is 34682.
In the last allotment, the data is :
GEN : 714, Scheduled Caste : 31,986.
[Courtesy : http://www.cee-kerala.org/docs/keam2015/allot/p3/last_rank_p3.pdf]
And the twist is that no general candidate can hope to get a seat even in an ordinary government college if his rank is above 10000, and these people who have 30000+ ranks are getting seats in the most prestigious college in state just because they are born into a caste.
Isn't today's discrimination denial of human rights?
One should note that economy should be considered, rather than family, for determining the privileges given to a group. The same hypocrites who talk of "no caste" are in fact supporting the caste discrimination.
This kind of vote bank politics and the tormenting of minority (Brahmins only form 5% of the total population) should be checked.
No caste deserves "special rights" because they were born into a family.
The aftermath is that the poor people of the same "reserved" castes do not get the benefits of the reservation, just because they live in an undeveloped area, while the well to do people in urban areas are enjoying the unworthy status.
Instead of improving the condition of people in rural areas, government tries to see people as castes, assuming a blind equation of caste and economy, without considering the actual stats of geography, economy and facts.
The failure of the concept is well noticeable in the stats of the population, and the thoughtlessness is revealed from the "reservation plights" made by the modern communities.
Ironically, the Brahmins are only 5% in the whole India, and half of them still earn less than $100 a month, not because they do not study, not because they do not have the passion to study, but they are denied opportunities just because they are born into Brahmin family.
And one must note that Brahmins had no other "hereditary job" than learning and rituals. The other castes have a lot options before them - the continuation of the traditional business, the traditional occupation or agriculture and lots.. if they do not get the academic expectations... but as Brahmins have not been historically been in any of these, and their shares have been purged off from the society, a hopeless Brahmin has no other choice but to live poor, in poor conditions. And none sympathises with the minority.
How birth determines your fate in India!
In this century!
And what about the favoured communities? At 70 years after independence of India? Did the poor among them have any significant development just because of the caste system discrimination practised now?
How many of the "scheduled tribes" in rural areas have reaped the fruits?
Again, the economy has NOTHING got to do with caste in the present situation. At least, that is what the statistical reports tell us.
Sajjeev Antony
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119889387595256961
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