YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

KOLHAPUR
PRESENT DAY EDUCATIONAL SITUATION OF
INDIA

To put light on the reality beneath the

“HISTORICAL INJUSTICE” done by our
people to the so-called backward classes (the
truth behind this statement)
Per annum expenditure of Indian Government on a
reservation student in MBBS-
Scholarship – Rs. 30,000/-
Books - Rs. 4000/(minimum)
Hostel – Rs. 7,200/-

Total – Rs. 41,200/- per annum

.: 1,85,400/- for 4.5 years course (excluding
Internship)

Fees – Rs. 1,80,000/- + 1,85,400/- = Rs. 3,65,400/-

THEY HAVE SUCH LUXURIES FOR 5,1/2
YRS AND IF THEY HAVENT EQUALISED
WITH THE OPEN CATEGORY
STUDENTS AFTER GRADUATION THEN
DEFINITELY THE RESERVATIONS ARE
NOT WORKING HERE!!!
AND IF THEY HAVE
EQUALISED WITH THE
OPEN CATEGORY
STUDENTS THEN WHAT
IS THE POINT IN
HAVING
RESERVATIONS AT
THE POST GRADUATE
LEVEL?
 IIT STATISTICS
IIT STUDENTS PERFORMANCE:-

OPEN STUDENT – Takes normally

4YEARS PASS

RESERVATION STUDENT – Takes “6”

YEARS TO
PASS

Based on Arun Shourie’s Research

 IIT STATISTICS
A study done by the IITs themselves
shows that 50 per cent of the IIT seats for
the SCs and STs remain vacant and for
the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are
the candidates, who even after six years
fail to get their degrees. So, clearly, in
their case, reservations are not working.
 KARNATAKA CET
Engineering Entrance
examinations:
Physics(60) Chem (60) Maths (60) Total (180)

Open Category : 34.25 41 48 = 123.25

Reservation : 2.75 6.5 8 = 17.35

Reserved student got admission,whereas Open Candidate

was denied!!!
Based on Arun Shourie’s Research
 Engineering Entrance:
Reserved Candidate –

Phy 0
Chem. 3.5
Maths 0

Got admission!!! HOW?

He has secured ZERO marks in maths which indicates he

cant even do the
basic arithmetic's!
IS THIS HOW INDIA
ATTEMPTS TO BE A
KNOWLEDGE SUPER
POWER?
 Dentistry Exams
Reserved Candidate –

Physics 5 marks
Chemmistry 0 marks
Biology 5 marks

Rank:- 42 ,493
GOT ADMISSION !!!!!!!!
 Kerala CET
 Total
students:- 20,000 appeared for 700
MBBS seatsats.
 Open merit closed at 412 rank.
 Ezhava (o.b.c) merit closed at 1605 rank.
 Muslims (o.b.c) merit closed at 1732 rank.
 Latin Catholics (o.b.c) merit closed at
2653 rank.
 ST merit closed. 14,246 rank
WHAT A WAY
TO SELECT
DOCTORS!!!
 PRIVATE SECTOR
RESERVATION
 THERE
ARE MORE THAN 10 LAKH
VACANCIES VACANT FOR THE
BACKWARD CASTES IN GOVERNMENT
ORGANISATIONS.
ARE DENIED TO THE OPEN
 THESE

CATEGORY CANDIDATES
 PRIVATE SECTOR
RESERVATION
 INSTEAD OF TAKING MEASURES TO
FULFILL THESE VACANCIES THE
GOVERNMENT IS BRINGING 50 %
RESERVATION IN THE PRIVATE
SECTOR.
 FROM WHERE IS THE GOVERNMENT
GOING TO BRING SKILLED WORKERS
FROM THE BACKWARD CASTES?
 PRIVATE SECTOR
RESERVATION
 WHAT WILL THIS RESERVATION
POLICY ACHIEVE OTHER THAN TO
GAIN VOTES FOR THE RULING PARTY
AT THE EXPENSE OF
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
OF THE NATION!!!
 Excerpts from Hon.Rajiv Gandhi’s
Speech
B P Mandal himself admitted in the report: “It
was rather disappointing to see that hardly any state was
able to give the desired information.” Second, the
Commission carried out a survey in 810 villages out of
India's then total of 5 lakh. That's 0.00162 per cent!
And how were these villages chosen? As Rajiv Gandhi
put it: “They went on to arbitrarily select two villages and
one urban block from each district.” Worse, and again
let’s quote Rajiv: “The survey was conducted by
junior government officials without any supervision
or checking or validation by any high ranking or
known sociologist.”
 Excerpts from Hon.Rajiv Gandhi’s
Speech
 So shoddy is the research and the data thus derived that the Mandal
commission is seriously flawed “Many castes that are listed in (this)
list are forward castes and are scheduled castes,Brahmins are
included, Reddys are included, Vokkaligas are included, Kammas
are included, Lingayats are included, Gounders are included,
Chettiyars are included. Are these backward castes? Do they need
This is how 52 per cent has been
the help?
derived.”
 First set of data is from the cost indexing of 1891 and the census of
115 yrs
1931. As he asked: “We are talking about data which is
or atleast 75 yrs old. Is that valid today?”
Excerpts from Hon.Rajiv Gandhi’s
Speech
 The three important sociologists involved with the
Mandal Commission - Professors Roy Burman,
Srinivas and Jogendra Singh declined the honour
and have clearly said that they were denied any real
opportunity to participate in the findings.
 Then Rajiv pointed out that the report is based on the
work of a research and planning team “which met for
only three days” and a second panel that met for five.
Rajiv's conclusion: “This means no
specialist, no sociologist was involved
with this report apart from these eight
days in a period of 2 years.”
 MANDAL COMMISSION’S
CONCLUSION

This is the Commission's

conclusion (para 11.27) about its
own work: “In the end, it may be
emphasised that the survey has
no pretensions to being a piece of
academic research.”
I strongly recommend this
government read the 2 and
half hour speech given in
LOKSABHA. If nothing
else, Sonia Gandhi should.
Her late husband's views
are enlightening.
- KARAN THAPAR
 THE CHIEF SCIENTIFIC
ADVISOR OF INDIA
C.N. RAO : WHAT IS THE NEED
OF HAVING THE POST OF
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR IF
YOU ARE NOT CONSULTING
HIM ( this is what he wrote in an article
in times of india soon after ARJUN SING
gave the decision)
 EDUCATION COMMITEE
TWO OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
MEMBERS RESIGNED SOON AFTER
ARJUN SINGH’S DECLARATION.THEY
SAID THAT THE EDUCATION
COMMITTEE WAS NOT
CONSULTED BY THE GOVT.
BEFORE TAKING SUCH A HUGE
DECISION RELATED TO EDUCATION!!!
 NSSO, which is a government appointed body, has actually in its
research in 1999 - which is the most latest research shown - that
23.5 per cent of all university seats are already with the OBCs. And
that is just 8.5 per cent less than what the NSSO believes is the
OBC share of the population. So, for a difference of 8 per cent,
would reservations be the right way of making up the
difference?

 Parliamentary Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes

and Scheduled Tribes - says that looking at the Delhi University,
between 1995 and 2000, just half the seats for under-graduates at
the Scheduled Castes level and just one-third of the seats for under-
graduates at the Scheduled Tribes level were filled. All the others
went empty, unfilled. So, again, even in Delhi University, Are
reservations working?
 Statistics show, according to The Hindustan Times, that overall in India, only
16 per cent of the places in higher education are occupied by SCs and STs.
The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that only two-thirds of the quota is
occupied. One
third is going waste, it is being
denied to other people.WHY?

 Sukhdev Thorat, the Chairman of the UGC points out that today, at
higher education levels - that is all universities, IITs and IIMs - there
is already a 1.2 lakh vacancy number. 40 per cent of these are in
teaching staff, which the IIT faculty themselves point out that they
have shortages of up to 30 per cent. Given those two constraints,
can you increase the number of seats?
 THE FACTS
1. There is existing social inequality in India. There are some who
get less opportunities.
2. Affirmative action is needed to benefit this lot of people and bring
them out of their poverty
3. Reservations have a great potential

Social change

Reservations have as yet failed in their goal.

 HAVE RESERVATIONS REALLY
FAILED THEIR PURPOSE?
 In 1953, the Kaka Kalelkar commission found
2399 castes and communities to be backward
 In 1989, the Mandal Commission found that the
number had been increased to 3743
 In 2005, the number was found to be 4418

The number of backward castes have only increased

Not a SINGLE community has been taken off

the backward list!!!
 BUT WHY?
The founding fathers of our nation predicted that
reservations would be required for just 15 years.

Reservations have been in place for 60 years now, and

have permeated all spheres of modern society.

Now three generations have elapsed, yet reservations

seem to be just increasing, instead of being phased out.
Who should benefit from reservations?

Presence of Lack of
INHERENT merit
TALENT + OPPORTUNITIES = SUCCESS
opportunity

These are the people you want to benefit

 AT THE POST-GRADUATE LEVEL

SUCCESS

Same environment

4 YEARS
4 YEARS

OPEN RESERVED
CATEGORY
Same teachers CATEGORY

Same books
 NOW THE REAL PICTURE…

BRIGHT QUALITY
YOUNG HIGHER
STUDENT QUALITY PRIMARY EDUCATION EDUCATION
 DEMANDS
(A) Immediate:
1.Review the provisions of the Mandal Commission
• The Mandal Commission report is more than 26 years old now.
• The statistics are 75 years old!
• India has gone through a sea change in just the last 15 years
• Fragments society into different castes, and does not look at
individuals as individuals

• “Castes/classes where participation of females in work is at

least 25% above the state average” are backward classes
 The government must prove
that the Mandal commission
has worked, and will continue
to work
 DEMANDS
(A) Immediate:
2. Review by an apolitical representative commission
• Politicians cannot be trusted; Too many vested interests
• Must include intellectuals from all sections of society
• Must review the need and effect of reservations every 5 years

Will ensure that reservations are applied

efficiently, appropriately and keeping the
benefit of the Indian nation in mind
 DEMANDS
(B) Short term:
2. Reservations have no place in institutions of excellence
• Their purpose is for cutting edge technology and development,
which is only possible if merit is not compromised
• These institutions will be accessible to only those with
demonstrated merit, whichever section of society they may
belong to.
 DEMANDS
(B) Short term:
3. Reserved category students avail of reserved seats only:
• Will ensure adequate representation of backward sections
• At the same time, seats available to the open category are not
compromised
• Currently, 20% of open category seats are taken up by reserved

category students
 DEMANDS
(C) Long term:
1. Improve quality of basic education:
• This is the only means of meaningful social uplift
• All the other methods are merely cosmetic, and temporary
 SUGGESTIONS
1. Commission must specify criteria for reservations:
• The criteria must be very specific, based on current data
• Individuals without merit OR without lack of opportunities MUST

be kept out through specific, verifiable criteria

• System of anonymous appeal and stringent punishment against

those misusing reservations through false documentation

 Good results

Bad results

Good results Bad results

Results at the graduate level

Cut-off point
Clustering of
bad results

Results at the entrance level

Ineligible for
reservations
THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MODEL

20% Merit

Socio-
economic
80% situation
 IN CONCLUSION
 We are NOT against reservations

 We are NOT against those who require and deserve

reservations

 We ARE against those who misuse and abuse

reservations in spite of not deserving them, nor
requiring them

 We ARE against those who play the caste card for

their vested interests
 Let us come
together and make
an India, that looks
at individuals not as
members of any
particular caste, but
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THE DATA AND INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THIS
PRESENTATION IS TRUE
TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.I WOULD GIVE THE
PROOF OF ANY
FACT MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION IF DEMANDED .
THE PRESENTATION AND THE FACTS MENTIONED IN IT
CAN BE USED TO
CREATE AWARENESS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

DR NISHANT KATHALE

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY (KOLHAPUR)