Is Premji right to go against job quotas in Wipro?
The Economic Times has opened a debate on "Is Premji right to go against job quotas in Wipro?"
As expected most of the posts agree with him... Edward Edezhath manages to put his point across in a wonderful and greatly readable way... Read it here
As expected most of the posts agree with him... Edward Edezhath manages to put his point across in a wonderful and greatly readable way... Read it here
I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting Reservations. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib aktar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal.
Also we should have reservation in Olimpics. In the 100 meters race, an OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters.
There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country.. )
Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country..)
Let's be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward.
Let's show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let's be proud of being an INDIAN..
May the good breed of politicans like ARJUN SINGH long live.
posted by Sajith M at
5:34:00 PM
3 Comments:
You are saying a fully trained and qualified SC /ST doctors can’t operate but only a upper caste person can . Such deep seated prejudice itself makes reservation a neccessity . Reservation is a way to counter such blindness . You make the neccessity of reservations apparent by such writing .
Qualified doctors are someone who are recognised as a doctor by the University or the recognised medical council .
Even if you let anyone get into the medical institutions …if the demands of the medical college are high, people should fail the final examination .They will not get the degree.
So, when you ask "would you like to be operated by a doctor who got in through reservation", I must ask, "how did he get the degree?"
If they all went through the same course, and graduated, clearly they are all acceptable doctors, aren't they?
Hopefully, the doctor who got in without reservation does not operate based on his class XII education... which is what is decided the "merit" at entrance time.
People flock to OBC/SC/ST doctors as well . And that affects an upper caste doctor’s practice !! That’s what hurts you. And you would want to preserve this monopoly .
The issue is not of reservation . It is of deservation !! For too long people from certain castes have been claiming ceratin priviledges as a divine right .So what has been reserved for so long now needs to be dereserved !!
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Anonymous, at Fri Apr 28, 09:38:00 AM GMT+5:30
What "merit" are we talking of anyway ? Scores in entrance exams at age of 17?
Take the claim of "merit based" entrance to all IIMs and dozens of other institutes.
The CAT exam is based on the SAT exam in the USA . It has been proved beyond doubt that the SAT test is culturally biased . Blacks and hispanics do poorly at it year after year .
If a student who is eligible for admission to IIM on the basis of his CAT score, were to take the same CAT exam in which he/she cleared in a language that he/she did not understand then he/she would be at a disadvantage compared to someone who was schooled in that language . Not knowing that language does not mean you lack the capacity to clear that exam.
Approximately 25 % of CAT test is about English! Another 25 % is about English Comprehension!!!! There you are !!!! About 50 % so called aptitude test is a hoax for someone who is from a non-english speaking background .
This is how the CAT like the SAT is discriminatory .
See the full form of SAT …Scholastic Aptitude Test . The problem is aptitude testing is not so simple . There is no test on earth which can reliably tests aptitude .
Aptitude tests such as the SAT have a historical tie to the concept of innate mental abilities and the belief that such abilities can be defined and meaningfully measured. Neither notion has been supported by modern research. Few scientists who have considered these matters seriously would argue that aptitude tests such as the SAT provide a true measure of intellectual abilities.
It was found that people could be coached to better their scores at SAT . The name SAT …Scholastic Aptitude Test could not be correct . So under such valid criticism the name was changed to Scholastic Assessment Test, since a test that can be coached clearly did not measure inherent "scholastic aptitude", but was influenced largely by what the test subject had learned in school. Even the College Board which conducts the SAT has beaten a hasty retreat.This was a major theoretical retreat by the College Board conducting SAT, which had previously maintained that the test measured inherent aptitude and was free of bias.
About ten years back , however, even the redundancy of the term assessment test was recognized and the name was changed to the neutral, and non-descriptive, SAT. At the time, the College Board announced, "Please note that SAT is not an initialism. It does not stand for anything."
The framers of these SAT tests assumed that intelligence was a unitary inherited attribute, that it was not subject to change over a lifetime, and that it could be measured and individuals could be ranked and assigned their place in society accordingly. The SAT evolved from these questionable assumptions about human talent and potential.
More and more people are questioning the validity of SAT . In the past MENSA used to accept high SAT score individuals . For the past decade it has stopped accepting SAT scores .
The whole exercise of deciding merit based on CAT scores discriminates against those from lower socio-economic status.
Though many non-IIM institutes have started accepting CAT scores, the application fee of these institutes is still inexplicably high.
The CAT is primarily an exam of Math and English. Logical and Analytical Reasoning is nearly absent (except for some verbal reasoning which again depends on knowing English well!!!!).
CAT is a clever way to keep those from lower socio-economic strata away Institutes funded with tax payers money .
So claims of “Merit” based on CAT scores is hollow and discriminatory against those of lower socio-economic strata.
Dhirubhai Ambani had a poor command over English . He would not have made it through CAT. So what "merit" are we talking of?
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Anonymous, at Fri Apr 28, 09:40:00 AM GMT+5:30
Anonymous said...
The issue is not of reservation. It is of deservation !!
Sure enough. I am not suggesting that we need to be biased against someone because of the caste factor. Deservation is good if it means only deserving (on merit and not on caste factor) can get in (be it a job or a college seat). Its reservation that I am against because Reservation ruins Deservation.
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Sajith M, at Fri Apr 28, 12:02:00 PM GMT+5:30
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