hey..! so.. ever wondered what happens to all the tax that you pay..
listen 2 this..
there is dis guy.. les call him vasu here.. he belongs 2 d scheduled caste.. v r preparin gingerly for d mid sems, n dis conversation breaks..
vasu : machi, my bro got a coll finally da.. dad is taking a loan for him.. around 2 lacs.. guess i ll pester him to take a loan for me too.. same amount.. :)
us : dei, but u don need dat much.. our 4 years fees ll come 2 much less dan dat..
vasu : dei, govt is giving.. y refuse.?
us : govt is giving dat 2 real sc guys who ve an annual income as less as Rs. 10,000..
u fall under neither category.. ur a christian, so u cant b an SC.. ur dad works in a psu.. so he ll b earning around 5 times dat amount in a month..
vasu : ya ya.. and he earns an equal amount as a money lender in our village n all.. i kno i kno..
big deal!.. i m a sworn christian, don like hinduism too much either.. it doesnt matter man.. d govt jus needs a certificate, which i have.. dey r not gonna check..
and ya.. the income.. i got a certi for dat 2.. declaring that dad's annual income is Rs. 10,000 a year.. and saying that he s a farmer.. :)
us : (we dont say anything, just a sad reminiscence of our academic and sports certis collected over the years)
us : ok da still.. wat is d point.. u ll only end up repaying dat big amount, which u don even need, wid interest..
vasu : dei.. i ve poorna nambikkai on our govt system da.. next year elections will come.. govt will change in our state.. d new chief minister cant bring any new PDS measures coz the present govt has done everything possible.. d only thing left for the new chief minister to do, which she will, is reimburse all category loans.. academic and farmer.. how is that..! :)
us : (v look at each other)
vasu : dei, govt is giving.. y refuse.?
us : @#$%.. whose money is it giving to whom da.!
vasu : (silence for sometime..) ok da, ok da.. lets resume refrigeration.. still lots left 2 study..
dis is a true piece of conversation we guys had in my room a few months back.. an audacious category guy has complete trust on the system that gives him a free seat in an NIT(and i think of all those guys who slogged for nothing.. God am i lucky..!), refunds his annual college fees, assures a PSU job as well (one which iit and iim guys are vying for).. he knows the disadvantage his forward caste counterparts are at, despite being the sponsors of his education.. he s got no guilt, gratitude neither to the nation nor the tax paying citizen to whom he owes a fortune.. he knows he can milk the govt some more.. vasu's real ambition is to become a registrar(apparently the guys who get the most lanjam n benami) or a doctor(jus 4 d money.. nothing else).. unfortunately his dad forced him into engineering(what a waste of an engg seat.. i know guys in bihar who would kill for one..)
he s made of stuff dat makes our entire babudom.. chief reason for the lethargic pace of our nation.. if those guys were subdued once upon a time its only coz they let themselves be.. sloths! how could we even think of funding them so much that they now make up a major chunk of what rules us.. this is the kind of hands we ve entrusted our nation into..
i dont intend to insult anyone.. all i have is a fervent plea.. u ve drained us of everything.. v ve fed you for atleast a full generation.. its time you show results.. its time you learnt something dogs are popular for.. we ve sacrificed our own prospects in the process of raising you to prosperity.. you already have enough to feed your kids.. its time you had the good sense of refusing any more incentives and endeavoured to bring up the rest of your brethren, the ones we missed to help in the last 60 years.. if not, leave them to us and dont snatch the opportunities we intend them to have.. you wouldnt snatch from a beggars plate would you..
i cant single out vasu jus coz v had this conversation with him.. such fellows are everywhere.. in every institution or work place you can see them flocking together. i jus wanna throw light on these people's attitude.. the exact same you find in a spoilt kid.. no matter how much you give him, he wants more..
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March 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM
That is entirely whats wrong with our system.. reservation on the basis of caste.
And reservation based on the economic status of the individual would be a good thing... but hey, anybody can get a certificate certifying that he's a beggar even if he IS the CEO of a multinational company. All it takes is bucks.
Screw reservation, man. The plague that we never seem to get rid of.
Any ideas on how else to tackle this problem?
March 29, 2009 at 1:12 AM
absolutely.. dint we believe that economic reservation mite help.. damned crooks ve a way of surviving everywhere..
this practice of domestic money lending is also what leads to economic downfall in a way isnt it.. all this illegal creation of money through interest.. for which there exists no printed paper notes..
this is what strikes me..
consider taking admission into a college.. a rich business man's son seeks admission and so does a farmer's son.. we make a system of money valuation.. for the rich man 1Re in his purse is equal to 1Re taken by the college..
but for the farmer, 1Re = Rs. 100..
so, the farmer has only to pay 1/100 times what the rich man needs to cough up.. but the college gets an equivalent amount of money in both cases(probably subsidised by the govt.)
now this can atleast prevent misuse of funds disbursed by govt.
but it should be used only in certain cases as in education, medical bills.. and also the valuation must be decided depending on the income of each person, where again we encounter the problem of fake certificates..
but atleast in this case the person is not getting money from the govt. but just spending lesser money.. it may be better than the present system..
what say..?
March 29, 2009 at 1:41 AM
But then again, all the political parties literally RUN on reservation promises.
The forward caste might join hands with us, but we are a small minority. The campaign would be labeled as one against the interests of the nation, and the support will be really low.
MGR tried bringing in this economic basis reservation scheme once... but he faced enormous protest from the Opposition.. and ultimately he pulled it out.
Then again, we need to clean up our political system to see any welcome change. Its a vicious circle.
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