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?
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the approach you suggested is worth pondering upon! didnt know intercaste conversion was possible. though logically, it should be permitted given conversion of religion is legal.
regarding jobs, the employees who fall in the highest performing band should be forced to convert by making a policy to that effect :) actually, i am suddenly pro-conversion! :D
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this post of yours reminds me of an incident when i was in college. given the reservation scene, teh chances of getting admitted in a good college looked dismal. a friend of mine, OBC and stinking rich, gave me a suggestion that i marry him so my caste would automatically get converted to OBC, get admitted into a good college, and later divorce him :))
i told that to my mom. and mom replied, "what if he doesnt divorce you later on?!!" :)) dad yelled, "who is that chap who suggested that to you? stay away from him" :))
sounds like a good idea...in jobs the policy can be if u 'exceed expectation' or 'meet consistently' you convert...soon we'll have the entire working fraternity competing to be more mediocre than the rest...isn't that what the govt. wants mediocrity over merit???
U are getting the basic aim behind reservation wrong!..it aint bout "SC/ST/OBC" categories..its for the people belonging to these communities..someone was talking bout merit here..where does the merit go when people who can afford to pay 25-30 lacs get into engineering and medicine.
Reservation is for getting into the college and not passing the exam.
If the candidate is good enough he will definitely do well.
Agreed that a better monitoring body for allocation of seats is required may be personal interviews could help but scrapping reservation aint gonna solve the problem.
You've hit the nail, Anonymous. "Reservation ain't bout communities... its for the people belonging to these communities". (Note that the focus here is on communities and not economic strata)
Or, we want to make people belonging to these communities more educated, more wealthy.
By forcing conversion, we will get more educated, more wealthy people to join these communities. So the communities' average level of education or wealth improves!
So the statisticians are happy, the politicians are happy and so is the polity!
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