Quota, IIMs and our Bheja Fry!!

Ohh the wait continues for the IIM results and the hope that it will be released soon is diminishing evey second.

It all started with the Ministry of HRD and the skipper at the helm, the lunatic Mr. Arjun Singh with his mind only targeted on the elections and the vote bank came out with the idea of having 50% of the seats in the central universities including the IIMs reserved! This happens if the 27% extra reservation is implemented for the OBCs. Although lauded by the coalition parties mainly banking on resrvation like RJD,PMK,DMK, this is widely criticised by the diminishing sane community. But against all these protests the bill was made a law and the reservations set to be implemented.

Till then snoozing Supreme Court woke up one fine day and gained its sanity suddenly and it put as stay on this implementation of OBC reservation questioning the validity of the basis of this law on 1931 yaaaawn census, and recommending the exclusion of creamy layer. Then it again snoozed off declaring the next hearing in August.

The MHRD taken aback by this has given a notice to all central universities to stop the admission process till the matter is solved. (Do they ever think beyond vote bank and worry about the academic year of education and stuff, i think its too much to expect from Arjun Singh)

This is such an irresponsible act on the part of both the Supreme Court and MHRD. Supreme Court, because of the timing of the stay, the vagueness of the judgement and the time frame given for the next hearing oblivious of the academic year impending.MHRD with our most loved Mr. Arjun Singh at the helm of the affairs, first to come out with such a law which can be used as a case study to explain what votebank politics really means.

The aspirants for the central universities and specifically the IIMs whose results are supposed to be out on 12th, i.e today are left gasping. There are plans and other decisions they have to make based on the results. The private institutes have already released their results and the last date for paying the fees is also nearing. This has left us all in a soup. The productivity of work has decreased in the workplace of the aspirants. This stress is more than that of preparing for the CAT or taking the exam.

The IIMs must be proactive and atleast get the aspirants to confidence. They can find alternatives in which atleast the two sets ofresults, one with reservation and one without that can be released.

I think the HRD ministry and the Govt must imagine themselves in a position where the elections have already been held and the results are declared 2-3 months after it. Then they will understand the real pain that we, the aspirants are going through now.Some representatives from the student community have already put our grievence to the PMO office and also to The Honourable President.

Hope is the only thing we all are clinging on to, that some sanity comes back to the HRD and SC!