Students petition Kalam against reservation
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 4 : A group of students protesting against reservation in higher education today met the President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and sought his intervention.
“We submitted a 21-point memorandum to the President during the meeting here today. He agreed with our view on primary education and the need to study the reservation system to see whether it has really helped the deprived sections,” said Aaditya Dar, who was part of the five-member delegation that met Dr Kalam.
In the petition, the students have sought the President’s intervention on, “the issue of extending reservations to yet another section of society not based on economic parameters but on considerations of caste and which is exercising the entire student community all over the country”.
The delegation, which also included Gursimran Khamba, Aditya Raj Kaul, Devika Malik, and Dhruv Suri put forth the need to reassess the reservation policy to ascertain whether it holds relevance in the present times. They pointed out, “Our final argument against the recommendations of the Mandal Commission is this: a report of recommendations based on a situation analysis of 1978 and thereabouts can by no reasonable accounts be taken to represent the realities of the India of 2006 and thereafter”.
“Our contentions are that the system of quota extensions is bad on fundamentals of equity knowing well that the notion of equality can be a question of original circumstances. However, the direction of every advancing human being is to seek equity not emanating from an unjust mechanism, but a potentially just mechanism,” the students said.
Referring to the issue of reservation and the reaction that it has drawn, they said, “We assure you that the educated middle-class populations of this country see this as an assault on their individual efforts of pulling themselves up to become world citizens by a political class that is only focussed on short-term electoral gains”.
The President was also presented 1,71,000 signatures of people opposed to reservation, including many who belong to the communities that this bill expects to serve.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 4 : A group of students protesting against reservation in higher education today met the President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and sought his intervention.
“We submitted a 21-point memorandum to the President during the meeting here today. He agreed with our view on primary education and the need to study the reservation system to see whether it has really helped the deprived sections,” said Aaditya Dar, who was part of the five-member delegation that met Dr Kalam.
In the petition, the students have sought the President’s intervention on, “the issue of extending reservations to yet another section of society not based on economic parameters but on considerations of caste and which is exercising the entire student community all over the country”.
The delegation, which also included Gursimran Khamba, Aditya Raj Kaul, Devika Malik, and Dhruv Suri put forth the need to reassess the reservation policy to ascertain whether it holds relevance in the present times. They pointed out, “Our final argument against the recommendations of the Mandal Commission is this: a report of recommendations based on a situation analysis of 1978 and thereabouts can by no reasonable accounts be taken to represent the realities of the India of 2006 and thereafter”.
“Our contentions are that the system of quota extensions is bad on fundamentals of equity knowing well that the notion of equality can be a question of original circumstances. However, the direction of every advancing human being is to seek equity not emanating from an unjust mechanism, but a potentially just mechanism,” the students said.
Referring to the issue of reservation and the reaction that it has drawn, they said, “We assure you that the educated middle-class populations of this country see this as an assault on their individual efforts of pulling themselves up to become world citizens by a political class that is only focussed on short-term electoral gains”.
The President was also presented 1,71,000 signatures of people opposed to reservation, including many who belong to the communities that this bill expects to serve.
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