Comments on: Mr Vinod Mehta: Please Talk Sense

By: Santhosh

Santhosh — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:46:44 +0000

The problem of poor can easily be tackled by simply opening more schools and colleges. I spoke to a greek lady in US and she said people in greece are well educated but no jobs. All this is because of stupid socialism which restricts growth. A simple explanaton in terms of economics. If the govt reduce the taxes on petrol the price will fall by around Rs. 20. i.e final price Rs. 30. Imagine the automobile population will increase 10 times. Job opportunities will increase multifold right from production to marketing. Similar is the case of electicity, bank interest( spread), insurance and lot of other industries. There is plent of scope to reduce cost everywhere and boost growth and everyone will have jobs. There will be then no need for reservation. I will put that in simple terms. If we have a cake at home for 3 people and there are 5 members we may fight for it. At the same time if we have a cake for 10 and only 5 people to eat, it becomes a non issue. Thats it……

By: varun

varun — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:18:08 +0000

hey… vinod mehta is right… heres the evidence…. do u know IIMs have implemented OBC quota to the extent of 7%. And do you know what was the cutoff set for OBC… it was exactly the same as open category…. i m sure you would not know this…. and how would you know it…. none of your 24/7 news channels even bothered to show a detailed report about it… now you tell me whats wrong with this quota system when the fundamental argument you anti reservation people are posing is that of killing of merit…. which is clearly taken care off…. all middle class people are hypocrats buddy…. i too belong to the middle class…. and i am ashamed of it…. middle class in this country will never help the poor India grow …. thts a fact of life…. n we have to live with it…. its people like vinod mehta who are atleast making an attempt to show us the right direction…… just change your middle class “”me and myself only”" mentality ….

By: Birju Maharaj

Birju Maharaj — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:07:00 +0000

Lets agree that there is a lot left undone at the grass roots level. We definitely need quotas, but not in institues of higher learning.

Media in this whole episode has played a biased role. It has since day one taken sides. This is not the role of the media. Media is a very important flag bearer of any democracy. It just so happens it suits me this time around and so I don’t bother.

By: Apollo

Apollo — Tue, 30 May 2006 00:42:00 +0000

The Media is full of leftist scumbags who view the world thru the prism of “”Exploiting class”" Vs “”Exploited class”". That is why it simply doesn’t go into their heads that there are poor, disadvantaged people belonging to all castes, communities, religions and regions. And his middle class theory is laughable. The middle class never was a monolithic community it includes people from every caste, community, religion and region and as such it can never suppress or will it ever try to suppress the poor as a “”Class”" and neither is it preventing nor will it ever prevent any poor from rising up to join its ranks

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Mon, 29 May 2006 23:36:00 +0000

Arun you can contact the youth for equality at http://youth4equality.org/contactus.jsp

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 29 May 2006 16:02:00 +0000

Information is an eye opener.

I am trying to host a web site to address the College/University quota’s system. To start with the site basically will have all the universities and its affiliated colleges with offered courses and number of seats. The information can be expanded as we go on.

I am looking for participation where by the participants can themselves maintain the data by universities/colleges. Can anyone help get me in touch with the protester panel?

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Mon, 29 May 2006 11:48:00 +0000

Exactly, thats what even my argument is. The govt must ensure that every child gets quality primary education and should remove all kinds of reservation in higher education and jobs. Only then can we build a knowledge based first class society. What government is doing is pure votebank politics which is proved by the simple fact that the proposed reservations are based on an outdated 1931 census!! I am convinced there is no social welfare in government’s proposal, its pure divisive politics.

By: The Pratz

The Pratz — Mon, 29 May 2006 11:19:00 +0000

While I agree with your point of view that reservations based on economic background would make a lot more sense than those based on caste, I have a more fundamental problem with all forms of reservations. If the objective of the government is to bring the economically (or socially) backward sections of the society at par with the rest, then why are they not focusing on expanding and improving the country’s primary and secondary education system? Wont this eradicate the problem from the root?
If each and every child, regardless of his cast, creed of financial background has an equal opportunity to go to school and receive good quality education which makes his application to college as stong as that of any other student, then where will there be a need for reservations to exist at all? Surely the Cambrdige educated PM and the Harvard educated FM have figured this out. Surely they also know the the government does not have the required skills, machinery or the motivation to make this happen by themselves, and therefore primary and secondary education will have to to be contracted out to the private sector and merely regulated by government. Why then is privatization of primary education such a taboo in our country? How is it any different from the government allotting contracts to private parties for wiring villages as part of the Rural Electrification programme? Just like the CERC sets guidelines for electicity, a government appointed body can regulate primary and secondary education!
But ofcourse there is a catch to all this – even the mightiest attempt to tackle the problem in the logical way (as stated above) would take 5 -6 years to implement, and the UPA government will be long gone by then as they would have either lost in the next elections or lost the support of thier communist allies. So Mr. Singh is in a bit of a catch 22 situation. He can either choose to take the path less travelled (sorry to use the most cliched line of all time) and implement a primary education programme at least 10 times larger than the Sarva Shiksha Abhyan, or he can implement caste based reservations which gives him some chances of winning the ST/SC/OBC vote in the next elections.