Quota Proposal: Comment
It is very difficult to comment whether this new Quota proposal makes sense or not. My personal opinion is that Quotas in any kind of Post Graduate courses are outrageous. It is high time to concentrate more on primary and rural education rather than imposing fresh quotas in higher education.
However we must accept the fact that the majority view, almost all leading political parties and national news paper columns do support this quota proposal subject to identification of students who earnestly need this quota. Even the striking medicos agree that quotas are acceptable if rightly done and when the right set of students get it.
The proposal by the central government to increase the number of seats by 54% to offset the quota effect and ensure the status quo of open category seats is absolutely not feasible within the 1 year time frame set. The government can only request the educational institutions to take necessary steps and come forward with budgetary needs and time frame needed to increase the number of seats. It is clearly the prerogative of the individual institutions to increase the intake on a gradual basis.
A few writers even proposed that a score card should be setup to identify the students who rightly deserve the quota. There are several parameters proposed to evaluate the score of a given student starting from caste, economic background, regional background grade, primary school rating, Under-graduate College rating, whether quota is availed by the student’s parents, whether quota is availed by the student during under-graduate college admission and so on.
It should be noted that it is impossible to capture this kind of wide ranging data without a comprehensive nation wide software system in place. The new centralized system must be able to integrate with several other state run and college databases on a real-time basis
So the need of the hour is to develop this new system which can capture the data precisely so that the quota can be extended to the students who really deserve it. Leading IT companies, educational institutions must volunteer and develop this software system at a low cost or on a private public partnership (PPP) model.
However we must accept the fact that the majority view, almost all leading political parties and national news paper columns do support this quota proposal subject to identification of students who earnestly need this quota. Even the striking medicos agree that quotas are acceptable if rightly done and when the right set of students get it.
The proposal by the central government to increase the number of seats by 54% to offset the quota effect and ensure the status quo of open category seats is absolutely not feasible within the 1 year time frame set. The government can only request the educational institutions to take necessary steps and come forward with budgetary needs and time frame needed to increase the number of seats. It is clearly the prerogative of the individual institutions to increase the intake on a gradual basis.
A few writers even proposed that a score card should be setup to identify the students who rightly deserve the quota. There are several parameters proposed to evaluate the score of a given student starting from caste, economic background, regional background grade, primary school rating, Under-graduate College rating, whether quota is availed by the student’s parents, whether quota is availed by the student during under-graduate college admission and so on.
It should be noted that it is impossible to capture this kind of wide ranging data without a comprehensive nation wide software system in place. The new centralized system must be able to integrate with several other state run and college databases on a real-time basis
So the need of the hour is to develop this new system which can capture the data precisely so that the quota can be extended to the students who really deserve it. Leading IT companies, educational institutions must volunteer and develop this software system at a low cost or on a private public partnership (PPP) model.
posted by Anand Gopal at 7:16 AM
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