'POLICY OF RESERVATION OF SEATS' IN PROFESSIONAL COURSES
AGAINST :
Good morning, respected judges and the esteemed audience! The topic of today's debate is 'Policy of reservation of seats for professional courses is good for the deprived section of the society, I, stand before you to speak against the motion.
According to the Indian constitution, reservation in all the fields whether education, jobs or any other place, has been made to bring under-privileged classes at par with privileged or general ones. There are numerous reservations like reservation for women, reservation for physically challenged, reservation for economically backward class, reservation for scheduled castes, etc. But, I believe that this leads to further discrimination in the society. It had started with a very good objective of uplifting the socially backward society to give them equal opportunities. But with time its meaning has been changed and the aim of starting it is lost. People have started taking undue advantage of it. This has resulted in widespread protests and counter protests as it has affected thousands of jobs and admissions opportunities. Students securing 80 or 90 percent sometimes lag behind the underprivileged who do secure only 40 or 50 percent for taking admission in the vocational or professional courses. It denies the equality of opportunity to those who do not belong to backward communities. They are denied admissions even though they have secured a good percentage. This would also perpetuate caste feeling among people and hamper national unity. Also the reservation systems in India is creating a manpower which is not able to compete at the global level. India needs people who can work for the growth and development but reservation is raising undeserving candidates at higher positions. Hence, I think reservation system should be demolished.
FOR :
Good morning, respected judges and the esteemed audience ! I am standing before you to speak in favour of the topic, 'Policy of reservation of seats in professional courses'.
Reservation system or quota in the context of the Indian education system basically means that a fixed percentage of seats are reserved in all higher education institutions such as universities and colleges for students who belong to socially backward castes and categories.
To understand the reason for this reservation, we need to trace its roots back to the Indian independence era when a few people made the caste system and them practised it aggressively. They also created some of very unsocial norms such as untouchability and discriminated against the lower castes on every ground. Thus, not only the social life but also the economic conditions of these people worsened. This increased the gap between the rich and the poor or in other words between the upper and lower castes.
The basis of the reservation policy is not economic but social and educational backwardness. It clears the structure of hierarchy in the society which is rigid and can't be easily disseminate even if there is betterment in the economic status of those people.
So, we must understand that the purpose of reservation is only to equalise the society and not to benefit one caste over the other.