WHERE HAVE ALL THE JOBS GONE???

*DISCLAIMER:

No particular community has been targeted or mocked here.

I am in total support of reservations as long as they focus on social upliftment of genuinely oppressed people.

I abhor the caste system or any other form of discrimination against any human being.

Here is a pic which depicts the current scenario of India where unreserved category people have to fight for jobs whereas reserved category people get those same jobs with less than 1/3rd marks!!

Currently, 49.5% seats are reserved in all government institutions and Public Sector undertakings.

How is a reserved category engineer/ doctor equally qualified as those who scored more than twice as him in the requisite qualifying examination???

Does the government really think that they can work properly when half their employees are not competent enough???

And the number of these incompetents is rapidly increasing due to all these free educational facilities which only very few enjoy while the general category guy struggles for the same resources!

It happens every day that all the posts mentioned in an advertisement are for reserved category only. The government has really succeeded in making general category people feel left out!!

It cannot and should not be conceived that all the people belonging to reserved category are narcissistic opportunists.

Millions of them genuinely need these resources, but they are deprived of this chance while some have been using the caste certificates for generations!

Many of us may have read about a certain Top Level Bureaucrat & representative of the Indian Government being harassed in a foreign nation. But, a lot of us don’t know that the aforementioned “Star” of Indian Government  is a multi-millionaire and comes from a prominent family of Top Level Bureaucrats and has been given each and every privilege possible (for one  such  privilege  even the Supreme Court Of India  said that rules were altered in order to favour a particular candidate by the  Government!!! Ultimately resulting in unfair dismissal from service of another Bureaucrat!!! ).

Some might be shocked to know that this Bureaucrat belongs to Scheduled Caste Category!

Here, the question arises that when one generation from reserved category has gained substantial prosperity by being selected in a good government job, why do their kids still use a caste certificate???

Are they unaware of others from their own community who did not have an upbringing as good as theirs and need those jobs more than them???

Article 46 of the Constitution states that "The State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people,

AND (DOES NOT SAY “ONLY”), in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.”

This statement has been exploited by vote hungry politicians for almost half a century now!

The Constitution does not state that people from certain castes should enjoy benefits EXCLUSIVELY without any consideration to their economic background.

The Supreme Court, in its 16 November 1992 judgment in the Indra Sawhney case, ruled that reservations in promotions are unconstitutional, but allowed its continuation for 5 years as a special case.

A point worth mentioning is that there are NO SEATS RESERVED ON BASIS OF CASTE IN THE INDIAN ARMED FORCES!!!

Is this because the government thinks that incompetence can be tolerated in domestic administration but not on the issue of National Security?

Or the government forgot about ensuring a "level" playing field in the Armed forces??

There shall be no equality until these so called "under privileged" ones keep sucking up all the jobs! The only thing these pro-reservationists are achieving is sowing the seed of hatred as every deserving candidate who didn't get selected because someone with a caste certificate took his job will might even loathe the genuinely oppressed reserved category guy!!

I did not intend to write this long a post but there’s so much that is unsaid and unknown about this crisis and I could have continued on but it wouldn’t have made a difference as the ones who could do something may not even be able to read this blog whereas their counterparts with caste certificates are surfing the Net on their free laptops provided by the Government!!!
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IT’S A GREAT LIFE IN FUTURE! *ONLY IF THE EARTH DOESN’T EXPLODE!!

Remember TV shows such as "The Jetsons” and fantasizing about the possibilities of living with a robot  in homes raised high above the ground on adjustable columns, riding in a flying car???

Well, fast forward a couple decades later, and it turns out that we are now on the brink of a Jetsons-like reality.

We all know that technological evolution is taking place at a hypersonic pace. Of course, the trigger is natural curiosity & a need for efficient systems requiring less human effort.

But, we must also think about THE CATALYST!

We, humans thought of switching to inexhaustible & nature friendly resources to satisfy our needs only when it was realised that THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH OF IT IN FUTURE!

The reason for deficiency of all amenities & resources is that everyone’s a bit greedy but what we sometimes forget is that THERE”S TOO MANY OF US!

Yes, as of July 2013 we are more than 7151000000 in number!

We need those flying cars because there’s no more space on the roads unless you possess the patience of a monk!

We need those homes raised high above the ground on adjustable columns because there’s no more space on land!

Every year sea levels rise & by the year 2100 a country as beautiful as Maldives would become the modern day equivalent of Atlantis!

We need those robots because more & more idiots are born every minute!

The increase in the level of average human intelligence may said to be increasing but that doesn’t explain millions of unemployed deemed as NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

Of course everyone has desires & a biological need to procreate but that doesn’t mean we have to behave like bunnies!

Every parent has felt the urge to provide for a good education for their kids, but, have they ever thought that there might not be enough seats?

Of course, they have and this worries them a great deal, but, extra tuitions and a prep school is not the answer!

The answer is abstinence & contraception that you deemed unnecessary all those years ago!

Of course, this might be due to lack of blood supply to brain ON THOSE MOMENTS but we must realize that future especially its problems are nothing but consequences of the actions in present.

In some cultures, children are regarded as a gift of God the more the merrier is THE MANTRA!

But, one must think that God, referred to as the Creator by some, must be pitying upon his creations fighting fiercely for the resources which should have been for EVERYONE!

Of course this same debate may go on forever on the themes of

Tradition VS Logic or Choice VS Need  but as is usual with the problems of the world, yours truly is fed up and may take your leave.
©Copyright 2014 GarrulousGautam