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The highest office for an unbiased opinion in legal matters for our India is supreme court whose motto is “Satyameva Jeyadhe”. The supreme court and the chief judge after diligent corroboration gave a verdict for non-quota system in private self-financed professional colleges. If we recollect the arduous struggle of the Delhi university students in 1990 against the mandal commission recommendations were brutally and ruthlessly turned down by the then PM V.P.Singh. Even a student lost his life protesting against this. This action murdered and took life out of the consummate forces existed in our education system from very old days of Nalanda university. The education system of Nalanda university of yester years attracted students far from china and other remote parts of the world.

Myself along with many other professional Indians feel the pain mainly because of the fact that, Instead of taking cue from the history, the parliamentarian-laloos and state-assembly-babus of India are trying to negate the diligent corroboration done by supreme-court. Their main intention seem to be the only motive of “making a big-show” that government is favoring the weaker sections by creating the reservations on the basis of “caste/tribes/religion” and that too by constitutionally in the name of minorities. But the reality is that the real weaker sections do not even know the correct meaning of the word “secular’. On the other hand they even vandalize the education process by printing non-sense in the text books without regard to the rich cultural heritage of this Mother-land. More importantly, at this time of the SC judgment, these laloos and baboos forget one important change of the current scenario from that of 1990-protest. This time the matter was brought to the notice of SC for a proper decision “by the managements of self-financed professional colleges”. Secondly, this judgment did not in any way hamper the government intentions of reservation in the government-run colleges.

If a common Indian citizen donot abide by the court ruling, it is termed as contempt of court. If parliament and state-assemblies do not abide by court orders, should it be called another legislation?. Such a situations were seen in the case of POTA, and cauvery-river-water disputes.

These professional colleges were earlier allotted quotas on the basis of reservation and they were also restricted in charging the correct fees required to run the institution. In-view of the quota restrictions, these institutions could enroll students to the full capacity. These institutions should stand like Ahoka’s stupa in the midst of commercial organizations while attracting the best talent for the teaching staff. The teaching staff stand like the very foundation of this stupa. Some institutions even got ISO certification. I could even notice that many institutions struggle to get professional talent for teaching computer science and they were outsourcing it through institutions like NIIT. The best talent will always find another spot pursuing his/her goal, but the best talent is not attracted the losers will be the institutions and the aspiring students. These institutions also seem to have taken up the responsibility of turning-out good professionals who would have the grit and determination of pursuing his/her professional career. If these institutions did not want to be accountable to this extent, they would not have knocked the highest institution for justice. I recently read the news about youngest Bar-at-law from Chennai. Why did she choose to study law at UK?. Ironically her father who was a practicing lawyer was pursuing the case for non-reservations and was even attacked by goondas. It is an open secret nowadays that these laloos and babus are only trying to create terror to prevent proper unbiased judgments.

Presently in government schools students and even teachers give daily attendance only for the mid-day meals. In another point of view, the employment of teachers seem to be an indirect application of the “Employment Guarantee Bill” proposed by Sonia. The exceptional professional talent that is required for teachers go well beyond the knowledgeable or intelligent brain. The so called government jobs only GIVE EMPLOYMENT GAURANTEE for the teachers rather than any motivation & without any means to abide by the accountability.

Again Ironically while government representative name their government/party as the most secular, these representatives/Governments openly and constitutionally preach and practice religious apartheid. Thanks to almighty, India still has enough intellectual brains!

N Ravi Sankar

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Reservation & Vote-bank politics in India Aug 05, 2005