If you want reservation to end, don’t start with reservation. Start with ending caste.
Every few months, someone says, “Reservation should only be for poor people. Rich SC/STs shouldn’t get it.” That argument fundamentally misunderstands why reservation exists.
Reservation is not a poverty alleviation scheme. If your concern is economic hardship, India already has 10% EWS reservation for economically weaker people from non-reserved categories. Poverty and caste discrimination are not the same thing, so they require different policy responses.
Caste-based reservation exists because for centuries, Dalits and many Adivasi communities were denied land ownership, education, temples, public resources, political power, and even basic human dignity. They were forced into degrading occupations, while privileged castes accumulated land, wealth, literacy, influence, social networks, and institutional power over generations.
Those advantages didn’t disappear after Independence. They were inherited. Just as wealth, property, education, and connections are passed down, so are the consequences of historical exclusion.
That’s why two families earning the same income today may still have completely different starting points. One may have generations of education, inherited property, influential networks, and social acceptance. The other may be the first generation to finish school because their ancestors were systematically excluded from those opportunities.
And if caste is truly “over,” then answer a few questions:
Has caste-based discrimination disappeared?
Do people no longer ask your surname?
Are marriages no longer decided by caste?
Has caste-based violence ended?
Why are Dalit communities still disproportionately represented in manual scavenging, sewer cleaning, and other hazardous sanitation work despite those practices being outlawed?
Why do many hereditary temple priesthoods continue to be dominated by Brahmins?
If the answer is no, then the problem reservation was created to address still exists.
Another myth is that reservation is “cheating” or “illegal.” It isn’t. Reservation affects admission, not the validity of the degree. Once admitted, students study the same syllabus, take the same exams, complete the same academic requirements, and earn the same degree from the same institution.
And before someone says, “But I know a poor general-category student,” of course they deserve support. That’s exactly why scholarships, welfare schemes, and EWS reservation exist. Public policy is based on broad social realities, not isolated anecdotes. Every policy has exceptional cases, but you don’t dismantle an entire constitutional safeguard because of them.
For centuries, upper-caste communities benefited from a social order that restricted others’ access to education, resources, and opportunity. Reservation has existed for only about seven decades. These are not equivalent time scales or historical experiences.
If you genuinely care about merit and fairness, fight for better government schools, equal access to quality education, affordable coaching, transparent entrance exams, and the complete eradication of caste discrimination.
Equality isn’t achieved by pretending everyone started from the same place. It is achieved by removing the barriers that prevented people from reaching the same place in the first place.
@talk2anuradha If you have any problem with reservation system you have to remove cast based name tiwari then question on that
It's fair to all human beings in India
No discrimination on lower caste people lower caste people faced discrimination over centuries
They deserve it ✊✊
@ashwinravi99 Sir our coaching group are not good in reading Pitches
Especially today was dry surface clearly showing us and low bounce
I thought 4 pacers on that pitch is worse
Kuldeep yadav wrist spinner could have been helpfull today🧐🧐