Reservations/Quotas

To all those who are crying hoarse against reservation ,let them not forget that the IITs and the IIMs were conceived as part of Central Government initiatives. They were painstakingly and assiduously nurtured by funds from the Central Government (and of course also aid from various foreign governments in the initial years),massively subsidizing student education while aiming to provide quality education in technology and management. Government of India has every right to tweak the admission policies of these institutions to suit the larger social objectives of the nation. Moreover, why bother about the institutions like IITs and IIMs if their only purpose is to train their incumbents for grand placement or US visa melas? Why deprive the slightly less endowed(gutter snipes if the pseudo elitists like to call them) to partake in the melas? Is there a single piece of trailblazing research work undertaken at any of these institutes which is comparable to the Ivy league institutes of the West? Can we dub them truly premier?

Ask any of the bright alumni if they are interested in making a career in these institutes for research and you can almost pre-empt the answer. I am sure the alumni of Stanford or MIT would be proud to join their institutions for the research opportunities they provide.That speaks volumes. I think the whole debate is irrelevant. The protagonists of anti reservation instead of protesting could do better by working towards setting up a number of quality educational and research institutions in private domain, to meet the needs of truly deserving students.