The System Works!!!

My prayers have been answered! The Supreme Court has stayed the 27% OBC Quota for IITs and IIMs for the 2007-08 academic year, which means that I still have a 0.00001% chance of entering an IIT, which is worth fighting for. Had the quota been cleared, I definitely would have given up all hopes of an IIT seat and instead,worked merely towards admission into a respectable college. But the dream lives on thanks to this deliverance of justice from our oft-criticized judiciary.

Granted that my jubilation may sound selfish, but there are sound reasons for my opposition to the bill. Though reservations have been in place for half a century, in my eyes at least, the cons have outweighed the pros to a great extent. Since 1931, there has been no attempt by the government to reclassify the OBCs and SCs and STs. This means that government policies for minority upliftment, including quotas, even today are based on data that is 76 YEARS OLD..........does that make sense??There has also been no case study of the reservations ALREADY in place for the SCs and STs, so imposing further reservations blindly without weighing out the pros and cons of the reservation policy is lunacy! The benefits to the so-called "creamy layer" have also been declared as a "necessity" by the govt , which further adds evidence to the fact that this is nothing but an attempt to gain political mileage with the minorities, and for a Congress-led government under Manmohan Singh to do so, is disappointing and heartbreaking!

In my mind, there is no questioning that justice has been delivered, and the DREAM LIVES ON!