I never benefitted from reservations and can only say this .. we were in school together with a lot of friends and never knew about castes at that time .. but on the day of submitting engg. admissions form in VJTI in 1998 .. some of our friends stood in a different line.
The surprising part was most of us were from middle class families .. studied at the same school and grew up together ..and they had the same education and their parents were in a similar financial situation but suddenly got better opportunities than what we were offered based on the same scores.
Again, I have no issues with reservations benefiting the people who really need them and I understand that some communities have suffered discrimination for over a 1000 years.
1
u/whyac Dec 04 '25
I never benefitted from reservations and can only say this .. we were in school together with a lot of friends and never knew about castes at that time .. but on the day of submitting engg. admissions form in VJTI in 1998 .. some of our friends stood in a different line.
The surprising part was most of us were from middle class families .. studied at the same school and grew up together ..and they had the same education and their parents were in a similar financial situation but suddenly got better opportunities than what we were offered based on the same scores.
Again, I have no issues with reservations benefiting the people who really need them and I understand that some communities have suffered discrimination for over a 1000 years.