Reservation and Conversion - Conreservation

Two issues that are rocking the parliament and the nation these days are - The Reservation Bill and the Anti-Conversion Bill.

Here is a raam-baan solution for the addressing both issues of reservations (affirmative action for socially, economically and educationally backward classes) and religious conversions (prohibits conversion by force, fraud or allurement)... Its called Reverse Reservation or Conreservation.

The idea is that instead of reserving 50% of seats for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (SC/ST/OBC)... 50% of those students who get the seats should convert to SC/ST/OBC.

I know this sounds radical it first, but give it a few minutes and let it seep down. The heart of the matter is inequality... and this policy will ensure that over the long term, all Indians are equal.

The selection
So how do u select the 50% who will convert... because everyone would want to be in that 50% to be on the safer side?

As always, it will be the bottom of the meritious pack who will bear. The last 50% who get in will have to convert.

The policy is, "if you want to get in, top the merit list... else convert". Every college would publish 2 lists. The first list would be of the top 50% students who dont have to convert and the second list of the bottom 50% students who would have to convert to SC/ST/OBC to get admission.

This could throw up intersting scenarios - an upper caste candidate might get into Civil engineering on merit but to get into the Computer stream he would have to convert.

Link to conversion and equality
This would also preserve (or in a way reinforce) the freedom of conversion. Over the years, a bulk of of the Indian population will be SC/ST/OBC obviating the need for reservations and ensuring equality.

Extend policy to jobs
This policy could be extended to job reservations too. 50% of employees would need to be SC/ST/OBC... either by birth or through conversion. The issue here would be how do you select the 50% that need to convert to get or keep the job? Performance analysis?? What do you think?