it's a do or die...

Yesterday UPA government completed two years in power. They could not have asked to celebrate the anniversary – a black Monday (with sensex swinging more than 1100 points) and shadows of reservation issue.

Anti-reservation protests and bandhs continued throughout country. Government has kept its mouth shut after the initial revelation. They say that they are still thinking about the best way of finding a solution to the reservation issue. One thing government is sure of is that reservation is the only solution to uplift backward class people and others. Check one of the question by Karan Thapar and Arjun’s answer to it –

"Karan Thapar: Am I then to understand that regardless of the case that is made against reservations in terms of need, regardless of the case that has been made against reservations in terms of efficacy, regardless of the case that has been made against reservations in terms of Jawaharlal Nehru, you remain committed to extending reservations to the OBCs.

Arjun Singh: I said because that is the will of Parliament. And I think that common decisions that are taken by Parliament have to be honored."

It says all about what government is thinking about. To add to it, government made another move yesterday –

“In a move that will just serve to intensify the Center’s stand on increasing quota for backward classes, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Meira Kumar has said that the private sector will be given two years to introduce reservations voluntarily.
Kumar has said that if the private sector does not do the same within the set time limit, then the Government will be forced to bring in a law to that effect.”

So first the educational institution and now the private sector. To make it more clear, in private sector also main target is IT and other related industries.

Can IT industry do what government is asking them for?

I think answer to it will be a strict NO. They can not do so much sacrifice. Most of the income in IT is from outside India, and for those people quality and timely delivery of work is important. To assure smooth operation, IT companies can not do much sacrifice in recruiting and staffing policies. Here companies like TCS and Infosys, recruit today to fulfill requirement of 2007 and 2008, then how can they take risk with reservation. Till now their policies have been based only on quality of knowledge. Whoever satisfies the level is welcome on board. How will they be able to change it?

Can they survive in India by not implementing reservation?

Answer to this question will also be a NO. Parliament (and thus politicians) has all the powers in country. In case of reservations in educational institutions, we have seen that government and parliament is very stubborn on doing what they want to. If a law is made in case of reservation in private sector also, then IT Company will have to abide by it. So it will be either take it or leave the country. Seeing that countries like China and Brazil are growing fast in IT scene, for MNC it will not be a very big trouble. Indian IT companies will face the bigger problem. They will not belong to anywhere.

So today is the high time those all come together and try and find a better solution to all the problems. Else the poison of reservation will spread in whole body and we will die a silent death.

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One joke on reservation:

Question: What would have happened if Titanic was made in India?

Answer: Most of the rescue boats would have been reserved for SC/ST and OBCs.