Social Justice
(News Item courtesy: Hindustan Times, Delhi, Gurgaon 24 August 2018)**
There is absolutely no reason to believe that if every class at the Institutions of Higher Education contained fifty percent Hindu students from the erstwhile disadvantaged sections of the society - who are admitted with little reference to other qualifications - the institutions’ standards and reputation would automatically improve. Similarly, there is absolutely no reason to believe that if every public and professional service in the country contained fifty percent public servants and professionals from the erstwhile disadvantaged sections of the society - who are taken on board without any reference to their calibre and capabilities - the standards of public and professional service would automatically improve.
Hindus should not,
qua Hindus, ask for special privileges and concessions in educational
institutions and job opportunities. I say so because I strongly believe that
such demands will not solve the problems faced by the weaker elements among the
Hindus, i.e. those who do not now possess essential educational, financial, and
social resources. Experience tells us that "concessions" mostly
benefit those who already are in better circumstances. We should also bear in
mind that any institution readily giving "concessions" soon begins to
decline in status and standards.
If the so called
advantaged sections of the Hindu society were guilty of not letting the
disadvantaged sections progress in the past, the disadvantaged sections cannot
take away the opportunities from the so called advantaged sections in future
through a constitutional arrangement. This is like making the future
generations pay for the crimes of the previous by denying them their future.
Such a system of social justice cannot reduce but only increase the social
divide.
Bringing up the educational,
financial, and social resources of the disadvantaged is both a national and a
social imperative. But bringing them up by keeping the advantaged down is
possibly not the right approach. Nor would it solve the economic problems faced
by the disadvantaged Hindus. Blindly granting privileges to all the
disadvantaged would only cast a shadow over the achievements of the worthier
and more talented among them.
The ‘socially
disadvantaged’ class should not be converted to a ‘constitutionally advantaged’
class in a way which creates a new class of
‘socially-advantaged-constitutionally disadvantaged.’
**(News Item courtesy: Hindustan Times, Delhi, Gurgaon 24 August 2018)
World Class(?) Indian Institutions will soon be able to produce no-class learners by hiring third class faculties. This kind of adventurism will affect not only some people but future generations. Intellectual annihilation of India doesn’t require a Macaulay in 21st century? Indian politicians will do so more effectively and efficiently!!
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Labels: Affirmative Action, General, HigherEd, National Policy, Politics, Public Discourse
posted by Mukul Gupta @ August 25, 2018
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