Everywhere in media there seems to be a good feeling that finally after 14 years, the women's reservation bill got passed. The women activists are so happy that finally their efforts got a government stamp and they believe now for women's everything will change the way it has changed for SC/ST/OBC over more than 50 years of reservation, which I doubt. However nothing dramatically has changed for lower castes because of reservations, whatever has changed its due to various socioeconomic initiatives by various government, corporates and NGOs.
Lest look a bit closer to the Bill, the reason bill got approved on upper house has different meanings to general public and politicians! The bill will be abused like anything to strengthen nepotism, already prevalent in Indian politics, and make the political families more and more powerful as more and more family members , now of course womens, will join the feast. So, the joy and cheer should be amongst the elite political families who are already in lower/upper house rather than a common women in our or your houses. I am wondering how media is praising this bill without showing the ill effect of the bill? not to forgot, political families owns hug stakes in media companies so I guess their pens can't write anything against.
Being a clairvoyant Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru Ji had protested against any form of community quota in the constitution as it will harm the very fundamentals of constitution. The SC/ST/OBC quota has never been critically reviewed by experts, instead it has only been abused by the government as a poll tool. It was suppose to get reviewed periodically to assess its effect and to make appropriate amendments, the castes who have got a better deal with the quota should be removed from the schedule so that the other castes in the same schedule should get a chance, it should not happen that only few castes in the schedule are getting the benefit, which is quite prevalent in current scenario. It must be applied with statistical granularity of each and every caste rather than clubbing them anonymously in a single schedule to satisfy the poll marketing strategies.
Now if we see this women's quota will be instrumental in making the existing political families more and more influential and it will become more and more difficult for new comers to join politics. For example, if the principle constituency of the prominent party leader comes under women quota, then probably his wife/daughter/Mother will contest on his behalf and ,of course, he will contest from some other constituency hence end up eating another seat which could be of a new comer and increasing his stake in the party as well as in Indian politics.
Nevertheless, there is hardly anything we can do except writing these benign blogs, having some discussions and then forgetting everything and get busy with routine work to make our future secure by spending more time in office, getting salary hikes, paying more taxes without knowing the fact that the same money would be billed against expense incurred in foreign trip of our minister's family in ,of course, an official visit.
Jai Hind
Lest look a bit closer to the Bill, the reason bill got approved on upper house has different meanings to general public and politicians! The bill will be abused like anything to strengthen nepotism, already prevalent in Indian politics, and make the political families more and more powerful as more and more family members , now of course womens, will join the feast. So, the joy and cheer should be amongst the elite political families who are already in lower/upper house rather than a common women in our or your houses. I am wondering how media is praising this bill without showing the ill effect of the bill? not to forgot, political families owns hug stakes in media companies so I guess their pens can't write anything against.
Being a clairvoyant Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru Ji had protested against any form of community quota in the constitution as it will harm the very fundamentals of constitution. The SC/ST/OBC quota has never been critically reviewed by experts, instead it has only been abused by the government as a poll tool. It was suppose to get reviewed periodically to assess its effect and to make appropriate amendments, the castes who have got a better deal with the quota should be removed from the schedule so that the other castes in the same schedule should get a chance, it should not happen that only few castes in the schedule are getting the benefit, which is quite prevalent in current scenario. It must be applied with statistical granularity of each and every caste rather than clubbing them anonymously in a single schedule to satisfy the poll marketing strategies.
Now if we see this women's quota will be instrumental in making the existing political families more and more influential and it will become more and more difficult for new comers to join politics. For example, if the principle constituency of the prominent party leader comes under women quota, then probably his wife/daughter/Mother will contest on his behalf and ,of course, he will contest from some other constituency hence end up eating another seat which could be of a new comer and increasing his stake in the party as well as in Indian politics.
Nevertheless, there is hardly anything we can do except writing these benign blogs, having some discussions and then forgetting everything and get busy with routine work to make our future secure by spending more time in office, getting salary hikes, paying more taxes without knowing the fact that the same money would be billed against expense incurred in foreign trip of our minister's family in ,of course, an official visit.
Jai Hind
