Reservation benefits the rich

Bhaskar Hazarika

NEW DELHI: The students from Delhi University and Delhi Engineering College

joined the protesting students of the five medical colleges against the proposed

amendment on reservation for the backward sections of the society in the premier

educational institutions.

Students from most of the colleges of Delhi University joined the protest

against implementation of the quota in the educational institutions. Nabanita

Gogoi, Msc final year student of DU, said that implementation of the quota will

ruin the future of the students and the country, as the quality would suffer in

that case.

“I myself being an OBC have never availed the reservation while getting

admission in the educational institutions and suggest that the government should

not make any amendments in the existing reservations. The reservation is

benefiting only the rich and the informed class rather than the deserved. If

this amendment is made, the quality of talents will suffer,” she added.

The students threatened to intensify their protest by staging massive protest

rally in the capital if the government made any amendment in the reservation.

“We are not against reservation, but there should be a policy which is to

be followed by the government. There is already much reservation in the

educational institutions for which the meritorious students are left behind. I

had lost a seat in JNU for just two marks where my classmate being an OBC

managed to get it. If the government implements 50 per cent reservation the

quality will suffer,” a student of Delhi College of Engineering said.

“This is just a plea to woo the vote bank in the elections. How far has the

quota system helped the underprivileged and backward sections of the society?

The talent of the Indians have attracted the international companies to set up

their offices in India and if 50 per cent of reservation is being done, there is

very less scope of quality talents emerging from these educational institutions,”

said Nayantee Barooah, a student from Jawaharlal Nehru University, preparing for

his civil service examination this year.

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