How much of reservation in education/jobs is needed to bring the backward classes up in the society? How long this should be done? Who are the backward classes? How are we going to objectively create criteria to define the extent of backwardness in each community? Should the creamy layer be exempted from the benefits of reservation? Or is there something called creamy layer? Does economic status dictate ones status in society or is it the more complex than that? In the end, if we are to set a goal in real numbers, how much the reservation policy should be delivering to the society?
In all the information sources that I have – media, newspapers, blogs, internet articles, books, people etc , I am yet to get answers for these questions. Equally disturbing questions further arise. Why is the government so interested ONLY in the reservation of tertiary education – i.e college degree? How did we assume that a student from poor, rural backward caste would be able to complete 14 years of schooling (the conditions of schools is another big black mark), manage to even know that he can apply for IIT, IIM, medicine etc, write the respective entrance examinations and then finally avail the benefits of the government’s positive discriminatory policies. The logic of this baffles me. Is there any one out there who has some answers to these questions – I m waiting.