Now coming to your solution of introducing reservations on basis of economic background. This has a bigger fault in it.
What happens when a poor man from FC and another poor person from OBC/SC/ST vies for the same seat? Who and what will determine the allocation of that seat? It will depend on the governing authority. If the authorities are from FCs they will favour a FC candidate. If they are from BC they will favour the BC candidate. Thus the system will be one of nepotism,favouritism and corruption. India will turn into a kleptocracy. The govt cannot cherrypick any poor individual and give that seat to him. The reservations for the BCs(ie OBC,SC,ST) were introduced on the general economic condition of the communities. In our case the poorest were the SCs/STs followed by the OBCs. It was also found that these communities were poor due to discrimination meted out by illiterate Indians in some parts of India.
No country gives reservation based on economic conditions. As I have said the real solution is to remove all reservations and instead develop a pan Indian identity. The pan Indian identity will only develop through textbooks. Otherwise we will continue seeing separatist factions like the Nagas,Bodos,Kashmiris,Dalits,Naxals etc Reservation cannot be added for all of them.
Hi
@Peter Sorry for my late reply couldn't enough time out for this.
any ways coming to the point to your what happens situation I would like to quote my personal experience how it can be done how it is being done
Now as I told you earlier I got an Engineering seat in CBIT college in Hyderabad in 2000. During the admissions there were 3 phases 1) reservation counselling 2) general counselling 3)remaining of both (also general happens very late). Now in Reservation Phase 1 on one fine day ranks from 4001-10000 were called there was only one seat in CBIT in IT branch which was reserved for BC-B Male Category. During the then state of AndhraPradesh(now it is 2 states) categorization BC-B had approximately 100 different castes & sub-castes/communities, any body who belongs to one of the 100 castes is under category BC-B. So there approximately 500-1000 people were looking to get that seat then how did I end up with that seat. As per your logic then there must have been a person who belongs to my community/caste who gave the seat. well you are mistaken I got it because of merit as i secured 4002 rank and I was given priority above all others who have scored lesser rank.
Reserving the seats for poor doesn't mean that poorest of all will get the seat first and next poorest next and so on.
It means out of total seats we put some seats aside for the poor and people categorised poor can slug them out
among themselves on the basis of merit. The seat will be alloted to better ranked(merit) poor person he can be of fc/obc/sc/st.
Earlier say 10 years ago we could say any person belong to FC is rich & any person belonging to obc/sc/sts as poor backward or any thing. But it is not the case now you have to understand there are poor and rich in all categories, giving reservation to one and not giving reservation to others is injustice.
Coming to the point why reservation are needed
Do whatever you want there will be the rich and poor parity or should I have to say 'haves' and 'havenots'.
Here i am not talking about caste region religion or any thing.
Let me take a child of software Engineer & child of the daily wager or orphan both are preparing for competitive exam
Child of software Engineer will have
1) best convent schooling available
2) attends best tuitions
3) has best books available
4) has best environment and resources to study
Child of the daily wager / orphan
1) will be studying in Govt school where they teachers are not there if they there they wont come or they wont teach any thing. These schools are taught only in the medium of the language of the state. So they will never know English or any thing close to it.
2) They will never have any one to guide them nor they will have the books, resources or environment for them to study or compete with a child of software engineer.
As per you then all the colleges seats which are to be filled by competitive exams will always end up with the children who have grownup with best resources(children of the people who can afford them). So a poor man child should never be educated or allowed to write an competitive exam because he will never be able to out do the child with all facilities.
"Now removing the reservation on the basis of caste/region/religion/xyz and putting reservation based on one's parent annual income will create an environment where anybody will least care what caste, community or religion one belongs to as it becomes a worthless thing thus unites everybody which was dividing people along many lines and only divides on one common known ever existing line called rich and poor this also gives a flexibility of removing reservation on person when his parents are able to afford him decent resources(increase in parents salary)".
You said giving reservation will cause nepotism,favoritism and corruption.I just want to bring to your light that these things exists even where there is no reservation i.e private companies.
People feel getting employment in private companies is purely based on merit well my friend I can share you far too many instances where one's selection is done because he/she is more beautiful than others not merit, he/she is of same caste/community/region as of recruiter and many other reasons. You ask any private company employee who gets a promotion first a person working hard or a manager's drinking partner who bitches about all other employees gets it first you will know it. I am seeing these thing day in and day out in all the companies around.
So no reservations doesn't make world better nor does the reservations. Giving reservation to people living in poverty creates interest of education in them this can change their attitude towards the education and this eventually will change their lives.
