As per this article
IIT selected just 159 Students (SC/ST) for 414 seats. Then going by the past trend, 40 of these would drop out because of the ill treatment they will receive in the 1 year long preparatory course and/or poor grades.
I could never understand is that why there is so much fuss about helping 120 students p.a.?
You may want to read the article more carefully. 159 is the figure for ST, not SC/ST. SC had another 690 students who qualified.
Comment by Ubiquitin — August 20, 2008 @ 1:00 am
ill treatment they will receive = well how do u know that ??
it can also be that some of them cant cope with the subject matter
Comment by prax — August 21, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
well me and my brother studied in 2 different IITs so.. atleast we can safely say what happens in those 2 institutes
Comment by Ankur Aggarwal — August 21, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
1. SC/STs come to IITs without having any basic knowledge by reservations.
2. Because of 1, They cannot understand anything in the class room.
3. Because of 2, They receive ill-treatment.
4a. Because of 2 or 3, They will drop out,
4b. Because of 2, They will be terminated.
5. If 4b happens, they go to media, and SC/ST commission.
6. Because of 4b, Media abuses IITs. SC/ST commission asks directors of IIT to fix the problem 3 and take the students back. But, nobody bothers about the problem 1.
We may need another Ambedkar to fix the problem 1.
Comment by Satish — August 21, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
I don’t think its prudent to wait for a miracle… if an action needs to be taken, it has to be now
Read the Depreviation points concepts for JNU admission.
http://www.jnu.ac.in/RTI/Admission%20Policy%202006.pdf
Somehow rather than having one big category for SC/ST, all univs should follow a similar formula.
Comment by Ankur Aggarwal — August 22, 2008 @ 12:15 am
The depreviation points are there for all other categories except for SC/STs. For SC/STs, still there are reservations. I agree that, deprevation points for few categories is much much better than not having at all.
If you know what all is happening in Andhra Pradesh regarding castes, then you will understand why am I expecting for a miracle. One article on caste system is http://lawandotherthings.blogspot.com/2008/06/freedom-of-press-v-social-justice.html.
There are thousands of instances like this. It is unfortunate that, government also encourages that. If anybody talks some thing bad against them (even if it is true), then they would be arrested immediately. That’s why, it is difficult to see those really ugly things in the news. Everybody fears of being arrested. Everybody thinks that, everything is going very well here, where as everything is so ugly that, we cannot even say publicly that it is ugly.
Comment by Satish — August 23, 2008 @ 1:21 am
i agree we guys have made a mess out of reservation….
and the worst part is that because of this the primary education.. the sector that needs the max attention is suffering
Comment by Ankur Aggarwal — August 23, 2008 @ 12:12 pm