OBC quota triggers debate
PEOPLE BELONGING to OBC category have remained backward because of social, economic and cultural reasons, said Prof RC Yadav, former head of Statistics department at the Banaras Hindu University.
PEOPLE BELONGING to OBC category have remained backward because of social, economic and cultural reasons, said Prof RC Yadav, former head of Statistics department at the Banaras Hindu University.
Prof Yadav was initiating a panel discussion on ‘Reservation in Higher Education’ held under the auspices of Academique, a discussion group, at Law Faculty in BHU here on Sunday.
“In BHU there are only 12 percent OBC students while the students of general category and scheduled caste and scheduled tribes are 68 percent and 20 percent, respectively”, he said, adding, “If a community of 50 percent of the population has only 12 percent seats in BHU, it means there is weakness somewhere”.
Head of Statistics department in BHU, Prof Umesh Singh, was of the opinion that we had been providing only medicines in the name of reservation.
“It is true that suffering had taken place for centuries, but the suppressed class had still remained the suffering class despite reservation being practiced for long”, he said and added, “It means that reservation has failed in this country”.
Vijay Kishore Tiwari of BA third year, History department, held that reservation must be opposed at every cost. “We were divided in the name of religion, caste and class which had affected our equality. The fact is that those who took the help of reservation, advanced, but those who could not get the benefit of reservation, are still backward in the society” he added.
Rajan Kumar Singh of LLB fifth semester considered that reservation would strengthen the democratic values and social equality.