Falling Over Backwards by Arun Shourie

Author:Arun Shourie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2013-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

That opening would have been enough to cause a little tremor in progressive hearts! In it, the significance of merit is conceded. And there is the unpardonable acknowledgement: that ‘the very idea of reservation implies selection of a less meritorious person.’ The very next sentence, however, retrieves the ground that is conceded in those lines:

We also firmly believe that given an opportunity, members of these classes are bound to overcome their initial disadvantages and would compete with – and may, in some cases, excel – members of open competition. It is undeniable that nature has endowed merit upon members of backward classes as much as it has endowed it upon members of other classes and that what is required is an opportunity to prove it. It may not, therefore, be said that reservations are anti-meritarian. Merit there is even among the reserved candidates and the small difference that may be allowed at the stage of initial recruitment is bound to disappear in course of time. These members too will compete with and improve their efficiency along with others.

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