Also it is not enough if we have reservations in the public sector alone, but we need to have it in the private sector also according to present claims under way.
Francois Gautier, the India loving French journalist sadly stated a few years ago that 'Hindus' are a "Moral Minority". Then are all Hindus eligible for 'reservations' in India?
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Our country has been suffering from multiple minority complexes. Our obsessive national 'Reservation Complex' has worsened it. Treatment is long overdue. After cure, a massive infusion of "Collective Confidence" is required to shed the complexes and surge ahead in the new millennium.
Millions of Indians know that positive changes in our society have been taking place slowly but surely. The most effective antibiotic in eliminating social inequities and injustices iseducation. When it gets supplemented with the correct dosage of multivitamins such as democratisation,liberalisation, modernisation, occupational diversification and professionalisation, it is possible to eradicate the disease. However, if treatment has to be effective the environment in which it is carried out needs to be sanitized.
'Reservation' leads to malignancy in society. It reinforces retrograde social inequities, breeds infectious corruption and callousness thereby reversing the process of cure. If afflicted again and again, the disease becomes incurable. Rather than poison India with 'minor' doses, we should suck it out and get rid of it altogether.
In order to accomplish this, we need to manufacture indigenously all our medicines. We the people of India have to make our government worktowards eradicating dire poverty, providing basic amenities like drinking water and sanitary facilities, primary education, primary health care, training for skilled labor and employment opportunities.
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Does it seem like an impossible task? But then who would have even dared to dream of a time in India when the Brahmin 'minority' would demand 'reservations' for them and get it? We have just achieved what was all along thought a social impossibility -both Dalits and Brahmins belong to 'minority' groups who need to be provided with 'reservations' for their upliftment in Indian society.
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I live in Australia, where "Affirmative Action" (AA) is implemented (Not in the same manner as in the USA). The Australian government acknowledges that there are groups of people that have been traditionally discriminated against on the basis of their characteristics - attributes that they were born with (ascribed), or that they have acquired. Under Federal Legislation, these groups are called "Equity Target Groups": Indigenous Australians or Aborigines, People with a disability, People from a Non-English speaking background, Women; Among students, People from rural & Isolated backgrounds and People from low socio-economic backgrounds are particularly mentioned.