Manthan Topic: Increasing Employability

Hampered Growth

A new approach for Enhancing Reservation Policy

Current Reservation Policy favors

uni-polar development A certain class of people attain more benefits than the more deserving

ones.

Eg. Out of 10 people from a village ‘X’, 1 gets admitted to IIT in reservation

quota, 2 get into NIT and 7 in regional institutions.

o Again the available facilities to each type of enrolled candidates is different

and vary considerably.

o So there will again be greater benefits to the people with better

environment than the less privileged ones in the reservation quota.

• The gap between them keeps widening and remains unbalanced.

IIT World-Class

Resources Best Jobs

NIT Better Basic

Amenities

Mediocre Jobs

MIT Less

Privileged Resources

Ordinary Jobs

10%

20%

70%

Top-notch facilities

Mediocre

Least

Proposed Policy

In our proposed policy, the gap between the upper and lower strata

of society is expected to shrink considerably.

The benefits of the reservation quota are expected to affect and

supplement all the deserving people and simultaneously attempts at

reducing the unbalanced benefits of the respective quota.

In this prospect, the probability and possibility of ‘Equal

Opportunities’ for the masses increases manifold.

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No Substantial Changes in the

Current System In the one-shot reservation policy, there won’t be any drastic

changes in the administration of the reservation policy.

The system curriculum will experience some modifications in the

use of reservation quota, but not in the issuance of caste

certificates.

This prospect, guides a significant policy to lead to better

employability of the larger chunk of society, without burdening

the Centre or the State with Major changes in the

Administration.

Same

System Different Results

One-Shot Reservation Policy

“Use and throw Analogy”

The benefits of the Reservation Quota can be derived by the

respective candidate at any level in the lifetime of the stream of

employability.

The caste certificate can be used for the quota by the candidate

only once, and then the validity for the reservation benefits expire.

• Section-3 of Society

• Section-4 of Society

• Section-2 of Society

• Section-1 of Society

Quota at primary

level

Quota at Secondary

level

Quota at Graduation/

Post-Graduation

Quota at Employ-

ment level

Differentiating Factors:

Once the reservation quota benefit by a candidate is taken, he gets

ample top-notch facilities far better than the one’s who could not.

Then that candidate does not need to get reservation as he got

much favorable environment unlike the one’s who could not.

At the next level, the ones deprived of better amenities will not be

competing with the more privileged ones as their validity in the

reservation quota has been expired. Just one ladder can be used.

Thus the chances of opportunities for the needy shoots up

considerably and the unbalanced benefits of reservation quota

shoots down significantly.

Scalability and Sustainability

This unique policy perspective can be scaled to other

dimensions of the society apart from Education System.

The effects, results, growth potential and possibility of

equal opportunities for all can be compared and tested

on any standard time scale; which has a higher

probability of being sustainable.

Equal Growth Opportunities.

Organization, Cost and Impact

The alteration in the process can begin at the lowest level

and subsequently move towards the higher levels for

implementation.

The cost to the Centre or the State won’t be significantly

huge; just some aspects to be considered including

maintaining a database for all the certificate holders and the

validity of their one-time use policy.

This would impact the lower, middle as well as the higher

strata of society and give equal opportunities to all; no extra

privileges entertained.

Higher Middle Lower Equality

Other Solutions and Challenges

Reservation on Economic Basis rather than caste basis.

Due to high corruption and loop holes, it is very easy to

issue a fake BPL (Below Poverty Line) Certificate, while

issuing the same in case of caste certificate is relatively

difficult.

Also the Economic Condition of anyone can fluctuate at any

time (Eg. Lottery). So deeming it as a criteria may not be

efficient.