Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Reservation & Tamil Nadu

While the rest of India is caught up in the reservation row, Tamil Nadu (TN) has been rather quiet. It is easy to guess why? With majority of the TN population coming under the quota purview and majority of the opportunities being reserved, it is no wonder that TN has been rather untouched by all this furor.

Intresting article in rediff traces the genesis of reservations in TN

"At least 80 per cent of the population is included in the reservation net. If you look at the data of the last five years, you will see that it is only the creamy layer of the Other Backward Classes that gets all the benefits," says Professor Radhakrishnan.

"If you look at the employment data, the MBCs, the SCs and the STs have not benefited. The real needy will benefit only when we remove the creamy layer. For the last 56 years, reservation has not reached the needy, and there is data to show that," he insists.

At least 35 per cent of India's population the age group between 20 and 25 aspires for higher education, but the present enrolment in higher education -- beyond the higher secondary level -- is only 9 per cent to11 per cent, as against 45 per cent to 85 per cent in developed countries.

Karuthu, a forum floated by Karthi Chidambaram & Kanimozhi to promote tolerence and freedom of expression is holding its second public meeting tomorrow. Naturally, the focus of the discussion is Reservations. The invite for the meeting and the speaker list clearly shows which way they meeting will go.

I wonder if the meeting will really allow opposing views to be expressed in a free and frank manner as the invite promises.

5 comments:

  1. it promises to be interesting, looks like a pro reservation meet to me.

    but still interesting nevertheless

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  2. http://chennai.metblogs.com/archives/2006/05/post_2.phtml

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  3. Future Shock

    Wisdomless Politicians
    Meritless Admissions

    Meaningless Curriculums
    Substance less Examinations

    Faculty less Departments
    Student less Colleges

    VC less Universities
    Knowledgeless Society

    Developmentless Nation
    Into that hell of gloomdom

    My Father, let my country
    go to Sleep
    let my country go to Sleep.....

    Poem by BR Natarajan BITS Pilani

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  4. Ada-paavi

    Yes.. its definitely a pro-reservation meeting.. I hope there are people with opposing views and they are given a chance to speak freely in this meeting..

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  5. WHEN IT COMES TO RESERVATION, PMK AND DMK PREFER HINDI AND NOT TAMIL

    Pro reservationationists ironically favour Muslims who only speak Hindi at home or Nayudus and Reddys who speak only Telugu at home. At the same time they treat Tamil-speaking Brahmins and Chettiars as foreign invaders by excluding them . They also claim to fight for the Tamil cause....by dividing Tamil society!!? PMK, DMK, ADMK etc reject creamy layer, support the cruel 2-tumbler system of Southern Tamil Nadu and now demand extended reservation. PMK leader will go Delhi, Hyderabad and Bombay to promote reservation rather than setting up Tamil learning centers in those places. This shows that Tamil Nadu policitians don't mind loosing their self respect and prefer to worship their Hindi masters than to work for an integrated Tamil society. Incidently the PMK health minister has made Hindi compulsory for medicine, the the DMK surface transport minister has made Hindi compulsory on national roads even in Tamil Nadu.

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