The controversy of OBC reservation in Academics and Jobs.

The current official estimates (2009) states that the rural OBC population is only 38.5%, whereas the Mandal commission report stated it is 52%. Now the recent NSSO report has falsified the Mandal commission report.
          
                  So knowing the fact that this OBC population only constitutes 38.5% of rural population, what is the need for giving reservation in academics and Jobs around 50% without developing the conducive atmosphere, infrastructure and facilitating qualititative education. Even in AP this ration is around 43% but they rule the political scenario by their strong numerical muscle. Bihar one of the most backward states of the country now comprises of only 34% of rural OBC population. The CM of Bihar himself is ab OBC.

                                       The policymakers who introduced reservation for the disadvantaged in institutions such as the IIT and the IIM without ever bothering to give then access to high quality school education put the cart before the horse. What the politicians really did was to invite the disadvantaged to a veritable Barmicide's feast! only the so-called creamy layer benefit from the reservation. The most effective aaffirmation action in the field of education would have been to provide adequate facilities for quality school education to children of the weaker sections.

                                       In any purposeful programme to achieve inclusive growth, the pride of place should go to education, particularly quality school education. So what is now needed is to reseve 50% seats in existing and future public schools (like Navodaya, netrahaat, sainik school etc) for children of the disadvantaged. This simple, inexpensive step will be a boon to the poor without creating class conflicts and crushing the other sections of the society. So there is need for social inclusion like this way without creating controversies.

                                         

                                 We see that many OBC students do not aaply for jobs and all under reservation quota and leave to the other unprivileged group. So what  we need is to allow and facilitate this reservation quota to the deserving candiates irrespective of which class they belong. Hence we need to rethink else the inequalty in the society will be doomed to prevail and antagonism among the classes will burst out!!