Reservation issue in India

While the SC/ST and OBC reservation issues in India are as cyclical as the elections are, it is definitely a very serious issue facing the youth of India.
But everytime these issues come up we have some or the other different and very funny perspective of looking at it.

I came across this comment on the web and couldn't resist laughing. As quoted by Karan_medeco on NDTV Hot Debates.

"I think we should have job reservations in all the fields(FOR PM POST AND HRD MINISTRY) . I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal. Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters. There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country.. ) Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another best way of saving the country..)"

Thinking on the same lines, probably we should also have this extended to politics. Any politician who is from SC/ST/OBC category should be declared as a winner if he/she gathers just 49.5% of the votes gathered by an open category candidate. Let's see how the Congress Party of India likes this idea.

Apart from the many alternatives and solutions, I think we should try to give these reservation benifits only upto 2 generations of a family. Today, the situation is such that the OBC/SC/ST have taken it for granted that they will get all the benifits for all the generations and hence are very complacent and don't develop the values for success such as discipline, penchant to learn and leap ahead, making a better life through hardwork and merit. I wouldn't blame them for it as it is a very common human nature to become uncompetitive when everything is provided for. Government needs to consider this before making any decisions on reservations which evetually become eternal.

Never will it happen that an OBC/SC/ST will beat an open category candidate in merit, because for people in the open category they have to slog and work hard. "Only the Paranoid Survive" syndrome kicks in and keeps them at the helm of everything.