These dodos can't even be creative with their slogan, can you imagine what they will do to our IITs and IIMs? Can you imagine such people as the CEO's of our MNCs? Even under the current merit based system, there is so much politics & filth in private organizations. Just imagine what a reservation will do.
Now don't get me wrong. I am not against those poor tribals or the genuinely backward who are struggling to get even basic education, forget IIM. I am against those people who own multi-storeyed houses in cities, who move around in big cars and then claim their right to freebies quoting that they are 'backward'. And I am dead against those crooks who take the genuinely backward masses for a ride to garner votes. I earnestly believe that both kinds of people are a burden to our soceity.
If the so called leaders are earnest in their effort, they should first conduct a public study on how reservation has helped the backward classes and at what cost. Dont tell me that there is no soceital cost involved in employing and promoting a less-deserving person over a meritorious candidate. I am sure people can accept a nominal cost if the exercise is indeed fruitful.
Instead of wasting my tax money on worthless nincompoops, I suggest that the government come up with a creative plan:-
1. First, make schooling compulsory - not 4 or 5 years - the entire 14-16 years. If you want to spend any money, do it here. Establish more schools, hire more teachers (and for god's sake pay them!) and distribute scholarships (few) and loans (freely available - but should be diligently collected later. Better get some banks involved instead of a corrupt government body).
2. Provide optional vocationary training in high school. Let people choose their own skills instead of forcing everyone to study boring topics like Indian Freedom Movement, Five Year Plans and their objectives - who cares? Whats the use of studying how 'bravely' our ancestors fought against the so called tyranny of the British (as far as I know, they were more benevolent than our own governments) if I cant get a job?
These two steps will go a long way in creating a responsible, employable talent pool which will work towards a more productive and affluent India.
3. Encourage small scale 'specialist' industries. Not that bloody 'khadi gramodyog ' and 'agarbathi' kind of nonsense. If China can make electronics a cottage industry, why are we still rolling beedis?
4. Banish the trade unions and the CPI (he he just kidding! they are necessary to bring a balance in soceity and sometimes for the sheer entertainment they provide!)
5. Eliminate the complexities involved in setting up a business. (It takes an average of 85 days to set up a company in India!)
The above steps will ensure employment to the trained manpower that comes out of educational institutes and they will have more productive work to do than writing those stupid slogans and demonstrating for a cause they dont understand!
2 comments:
The suggestions made by you are quite practical and easy to implement. It's not that nobody has given these issues a serious thought. Our 5-year plans are replete with similar ideas. But when it comes to implementation, the entire govt machinery either works at a snail's pace or conveniently ignores them. How much time and energies are frittered in useless debates, like reservation. Why do we need to even discuss them in first place when even five decades after independence, we havn't dealt with the basics of life? We don't have access to proper roads, pure drinking water, 24-hr electric supply, adequate medical facilities.....Is it all a joke? This nonsense has to end. When and how, only God knows. And these days He's busy with building China's economy.
People are corrupt by nature. Every one, everywhere. The trick is to use this knowledge to guide implementation of public policies for the overall benefit of soceity. The key is accountibility. It is the lack of accountibility and general lack of interest on the part of the public that has given rise to an inefficient India.
The Chinese Government believes that it will be able to enforce policies thru negative incentives (fear of punishment) which I believe to be very short term effects. Incentives have to be positive (rewards and monetary gains)to be effective over a long term.
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