Forget Reservations!

Hello my young, educated, internet friendly and innovative fellows – backward, schedule caste, schedule tribes and poor or rich forward people. It is irony in this country that we are still relying on reservation to see our development. Reservation is the worst form of discrimination of human against human. They have been started with the selfish motives to keep the backward as backward, schedule castes as schedule castes, schedule tribes as schedule tribes and over and above poor as poor. They have been done very intentionally by the biggest thinkers on this earth. They have been done very systematically throughout the evolution of Indian democracy. They have been forced in the mind and soul of rising leaders. They have influenced the leader’s mind of even today. The reason is simple. Till the time you will remain backward, I will remain forward. Till the time you will remain poor, I will remain rich. The backward, forward, rich and poor are all comparatives. They are nothing in its originality. Only one thing is certain as human that we all are human. We all need basic amenities to enjoy life. We all need fresh air to have deep breath. We all need air and time to do pranayam. We all need to enjoy this beautiful life. We do not want to be categorized as backward, forward, schedule caste or schedule tribes. We do not want to be categorized as even male and female in broad perceptions to avoid discrimination even in the womb. Let me live as a living being. We are human. And this identity has no crisis further. Do not give me any other identity!
The Indian market opened in 1992 under the stewardship of Narshimha Rao, then Prime Minister of India. He brought in Manmohan Singh as the Finance Minister to initiate the task. It opened the entire horizon of economic development. It has changed the way India looks at development. It has forgotten the subsidies days of beggars when citizens have to look towards the Government for their bread and butter. It is no more. The development has been phenomenal and encouraging. Even if many governments have been sacrificed on the name of progress or change, the pace of development has not altered. The planners have sensed the root of development and no planners can take any chance. The economy and society is developing at its own pace. It does not demand elusive support but it demands just no hindrances. The old and outdated economic views will not be accepted anymore. The civilization has witnessed the real development of individual, society and nation. This development is inevitable and every citizen or human beings have to realize these changes.
The development of China under the Communist Leadership is a clear example of these social compulsions. Why only China, other Communist countries have also sensed the compulsions of theses social changes. Even the Muslim countries and Muslim societies have realized the compulsions of these changes. The country like Malaysia is trying to become the first developed nation among Muslim world. In September 2005, in his keynote address to the two day Global Leadership Forum organized by the Foundation for the Future, an international think-tank and the Perdana Leadership Foundation, the prime minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmed Badawi said, ‘to bring forth the innovative spirit, one must go beyond education to also change values, attitudes, mindset and culture.’ Prime Minister of Malaysia wants to see his country as first among 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to attain developed nation status by the year 2020. Presently none of the OIC members has become a developed nation. No government has any other options. They have to focus on the need to change the values, attitude, mindset and even cultures. China has taken the drastic steps of changes to face the future. They have sacrificed their communist views as far as development is concerned. They are going ahead with the change of their own traditional values, attitudes, mindset and cultures. The Chinese have opened up the economy long back. They have even opened up to retail foreign direct investment (FDI) as early as 1992 for which even the Indian government is still discussing in the year 2006. The sweet result of this courage is that the retail world famous company like Walmart alone has delivered $170 million in taxes to the Chinese exchequer. And to the surprise of any conservative observers, the small family stores in China have went up from 1.9 million to 2.5 million since the time retailers came in. The Chinese have gone global. Why only China, the world has to move the global way. Few of the people for few of the occasion for few of the results could fool the person otherwise.
Today when Arjun Singh writes a letter to all State governments to ensure reservation, what is he trying to show? Is he trying to earn the name like VP Singh? Is he trying to become immortal in this poor country? We are still struggling hard to maintain our cities in good condition. We are unable to develop infrastructure which may attract FDI to maintain he GDP above 8%. We are still struggling to avoid unnecessary exploitation of our educated youth in call centers and BPOs. We are still struggling to ensure the spread of international level institutions engineering, managements or even medical establishments. We are struggling hard to provide basic education, water and electricity to our citizens. We are struggling hard to generate innovation. We can not do any of these things through reservation. We can not do any good to human by discriminating. We musty stop these cheap methods of earning good name. We must stop reservation. We should give chance to humanity to grow and prosper.