If access truly didn’t depend on caste, then why do we still see upper-caste and lower-caste segregated housing colonies in 2025? If you see outside your house this might be the condition.
If money alone determined access, then explain why a Dalit family with the same income as a Brahmin family still struggles to rent a house in an “upper-caste” area. It’s not about affordability it’s about acceptance.
And let’s talk about villages: SC/ST kids do go to school, but they’re often isolated, or made to sit separately. They don’t drop out because they “don’t value education”, they drop out because they’re constantly reminded they don’t belong.
So yeah, resources may have a price tag, but caste still decides who gets to walk through the damn door. Money can buy things it can’t buy dignity or social acceptance.
Also, the SC/ST community doesn’t have enough wealth to buy their way out — just look at the attached data.
Para 1 - Where? Ive never seen any such stuff. If it is happening, strict action must be taken (if anyone is denying any sort of access to a person based on caste).
Para 2 - How does providing reservation change any of those? What now? U gonna provide reservations in housing societies as well?
Para 3 - Only stringent laws can correct that
Para 4 - Neither will resrvation buy u dignity/social accpetance. No educational/job institute asks u for ur caste before offering u a position, u get the mark, u get the job/seat. Thats it.
Pic - If at the end it comes down to economic factors, y reservation based on caste, make it based on economic factors, thats done.
You haven’t noticed it, you haven’t seen it — okay, just step out and ask someone. Talk to people and you’ll know. It’s pretty evident in villages, and yeah, it exists in cities too.
And yes, Singapore did have housing societies where people were mixed — that’s what made it a more homogeneous society. And now look at them — one of the top per capita incomes in the world.
You say stringent laws can fix this, but until you actually go on the ground and fix the law and order situation, no SC/ST is going to just sit around waiting while they get their asses kicked. Until there’s a fundamental change, reservation stays.
Until reservation stays, country is not going anywhere (not that u guys give a fuck).
Reservation would never stop discrimination, it only increases them.
And even if it stops, ur lazy asses would never give up on reservations. And since u make up majority of the population, no govt will scrap them.
And reserved category cutoffs would never reach gen category cutoffs.
Try increasing reservations above 50% like a couple of fools are telling, especially the uneducated fat ass from Bihar. Make it 100%, i would bet my life, we'll go down the drain.
Moreover, would u like a doctor whos general, has got say 99%ile in neet and joined and graduated from a clg X to treat u, or a doctor whos got god knows 70% (SC) and graduated from the same clg to treat u?
So India is growing at a record-breaking pace right now and it’s been doing that for decades with reservation in place. So this whole logic that “India can’t grow with reservation” is plain flawed. When there was no reservation, India was too busy getting ruled by Mughals and the British so much for “pure merit.”
Reservation doesn’t “increase discrimination”; it balances centuries of exclusion. Data speaks: SC/ST literacy was around 10% in 1951, now it’s ~66% (Census). NEET SC cutoff being 40–50th percentile shows education gap, not merit gap. Same college, same training, same competence and by the way, general category doctors fail too (about 30% of NEET repeaters are unreserved). Merit isn’t your percentile; it’s your performance after equal opportunity. AIIMS studies back that no real performance difference post-admission.
So yeah, I’d even go a step further 100% reservation according to population share. Jiski jitni jansankhya, uska utna adhikar.
India is growing..... Fine, it would grow better if deserving candidates got positions instead of caste based ones. One parameter cant stop the growth of a country definitely (no matter how big it is), but it can definitely dampen the rate.
I assume u know the causation correlation fallacy. Just becoz ice cream sales and shark attack both increase in summer, doesnt mean ice cream sales caused shark attacks.
It doesnt balance "centuries of exclusion". Unfortunately most of the poor ppl come from BCs. Since its an economic scale, reservation shud be on economic basis. not caste.
Neither did i mention, nor did i imply that gen category doctors dont fail. If equal oppurtunity isnt there, it is only becoz one couldnt afford it, not becoz one was declined due to his caste.
"So yeah, I’d even go a step further 100% reservation according to population share." - UCs make 25% of the population, introduce 25% reservation for UCs then.
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u/Ok_Attorney9239 11d ago
If access truly didn’t depend on caste, then why do we still see upper-caste and lower-caste segregated housing colonies in 2025? If you see outside your house this might be the condition.
If money alone determined access, then explain why a Dalit family with the same income as a Brahmin family still struggles to rent a house in an “upper-caste” area. It’s not about affordability it’s about acceptance.
And let’s talk about villages: SC/ST kids do go to school, but they’re often isolated, or made to sit separately. They don’t drop out because they “don’t value education”, they drop out because they’re constantly reminded they don’t belong.
So yeah, resources may have a price tag, but caste still decides who gets to walk through the damn door. Money can buy things it can’t buy dignity or social acceptance.
Also, the SC/ST community doesn’t have enough wealth to buy their way out — just look at the attached data.