The menace of the reservation system, which has already eaten up the cores of meritorious servicemen during the last 70 years, was on its way to eat up meritorious non-resident Indians. But, the Modi Government’s emphasis on merit and efficiency did not let this dragon named “reservation” face its mouth to NRIs.
According to a report published by THE HINDU, Rohit Vinod, a resident of Kuwait, and citizen of India had applied for a seat under the NRI quota in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test. Moving on to the next page of the application form, he expected the class pop-up menu to showcase options like General, OBC, SC, ST. To his utter surprise, “General“ was the only option. He wanted to choose OBC and avail reservation under that category. The matter is currently pending in Kerala High Court.
Court and Government tussle
Meanwhile, Kerala High court in its interim order directed the Health Ministry and National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEET to vary its utility in “such a way that he is able to claim admission to MBBS course against the quota marked for OBC-NCL in the event of selection”. However, NTA has not made any modifications in the form. In its affidavit, to the High Court NTA described the unsustainability of class quota for NRI categories. NTA’s affidavit read as “NRI is already a separate reserved category for the MBBS course. The petitioner cannot be given the benefit of sub-reservation,”
Rohit’s father Vinod Karthikeyan expressed his views through a telephonic interview. He said – “Why should NRIs be denied community-based reservation? Are we not Indian citizens who are guaranteed constitutional rights? Why are we being treated similar to the foreigners’ category?” He further added, “high-scoring college topper, Rohit hoped to enter one of many nation’s greatest establishments through the OBC quota”.
The politicization of the Affirmative Actions
The reservation system originally intended to benefit the socially backward classes was expected to be a game-changer in India’s socio-economic development. However, the system is now tainted by its incessant politicization. The reservation system was put in place for 10 years after Indian Independence, but the successive governments have been pushing the deadline for more than a half-century. Not only they pushed the deadline, but to utilize the numerically superior communities, they changed the system in such a way that more and more groups were included under its fold so that they could vote for the party implementing it.
The shift from need-based reservation to rights-based reservation
The reservation system should have been used to properly develop efficient school and college systems so that there is no need for this regressive system in the country. Instead of that, we have people like Vinod Karthikeyan who demands reservation just because it is their constitutional right and not because they need it.
According to original constitutional, the reservations are only proposed to be implemented for the period of 10 years and afterwards various Govt’s have extended them infinitely and that already violated not only the original purpose but severely damaged the prospects of General Category people who have been deprived of their constitutional rights by limiting them access to fair quotas.
Indian Courts must abolish this unfair reservation system permanently and uphold the constitutional rights of General Category people.
All Indian citizens under General Category must file PIL in all Indian courts to uphold their constitutional rights and if courts fail then they must press NOTA button in every election and teach a lesson to political parties. These reservations can not continue indefinitely.
80% of Indian people are fall in reserve category and getting 50% reservation in education and jobs on other hand 15% (less than this) getting 50% reservation which is unfair still this people asking for demolishing the reservation in name of merit, they wanted to rule on this 80% dalit category any how , they are unhappy to see the dalit people getting education and having jobs in overseas