A forum of equals to oppose the proposed changes in the reservation policy by the Govt of India.

YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS MOVEMENT...
* Read more on this issue. Unless you are well informed, you cannot convince others
* Talk to people and explain our cause to them
* Mobilize people within your college/ company/ neighbourhood to help create a wider base

Write in to us with your queries, ideas and contact details to
y4echennai@gmail.com

Contact Persons: Vivek 9840316677, Nandini 9841155586, Anusha 9840825089

LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR ACTIVE SUPPORT!


Saturday, May 20, 2006

Press Release: Pre-Protest 22.05.2006

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY, CHENNAI

www.yfechennai.blogspot.com Email:y4echennai@gmail.com

STUDENTS OF CHENNAI JOIN THE ANTI-RESERVATION PROTEST

We the youth of India and citizens of Chennai city are distressed and deeply pained at the recent ongoing developments regarding the proposal of government of India to extend caste based reservations to OBC in institutes of higher learning and excellence

To express our solidarity with the rest of our nation and to register a strong protest we are organizing a peaceful protest gathering at

Venue: Government guest house, Wallajah road, Chennai.

Date: 25th of May, Thursday
Time: 4 pm

The gathering wishes to take up the following issues and also register a protest against
  • The inability of the government of India to address the needs of students in a fair and just manner
  • The blatant refusal of the government to go for a rethink on the policy of caste based reservations
  • The failure of government to provide quality education in grass root centers for ages and trying to cover up its failure now by resorting to unjustified and unwarranted reservations as a remedial measure.
  • The ploy of government to extend caste based reservations to score political points thus harboring divisions in India on caste lines, which is a deplorable act on the part of the government
  • The unjustified police brutality against peaceful protesting students in Mumbai and Delhi which has angered all peace loving citizens of this nation.

We also take this opportunity to invite all like minded citizens of India irrespective of caste creed or religion from various sections of society to join this protest

CONTACT US OR WRITE TO US:

Website: http://yfechennai.blogspot.com/

Email: y4echennai@gmail.com

CONTACT PERSONS:

Vivek Agrawal -- 9840316677

Meenakshi Nandini -- 9841155586

Pabashi Poddar -- 9840419187

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi
i am against anti reservation protest, i am a medical student and to me what u are doing is unjust .
u should be more than willing to lend an helping hand to people who are opperesed than curtailing their right
the true development lies in uplifting all the people of the country , in no way reservations dissolve merit.those availing reservation are not dumb they are as good as u are only that they are not given the oppurtunity

10:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

its raining out here..is it still on???

3:17 PM  
Blogger அசுரன் said...

Again Reservation!


Warning:!
I request everybody to read this mail from a comman perspective. And request everybody to shun away their caste Identity. Still vast majority of people are toiling in villages suffering two pronged devils 1) Caste oppression and 2) Economic depression. And lower caste people(poor and slum) in urban area also still suffering social discrimination in either way(economic and/or Caste). Given this context inorder to give even opportunity to everybody, reservation is the only option available in this system. The other option could be to demolish the system.


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Some arguments and Counter arguments:


#1) One of the prime argument by the Social oppressors is "Fair Competition"


This argument is primarily the argument of Neo Globalisation Middle class who benifitted from the sufferrings of Amrican Employees. This Argument is valid against Upper caste, as in IT field they are representing more than 60%.


What is fair competition?

Is that the one we compete with American employees? Will any one us can survive if we have to have a fair competition with american counter part who lost job because of Outsourcing? If those upper caste elites are sooooooo honest and dedicated to fair competition then apply it to themself when they compete with USA employees. Atleast Do they have the courage to accept that not becasue of talent but becasue of Cheap labour that made the USA counter part loose the Fair competition with India and other countries? Those people shouldn't talk about Fair competition with this great immorality with in them.


#2) The other argument is Economically good - other caste people are enjoying Reservation. This argument has its base on the ignorance of the truth that Reservation are not based on Caste but based on population. Reservation not based on Caste, Based on population:


Reservation are given not based on caste. It is introduced to even the uneven sharing of lucurative, influential jobs by various social groups. The percentage of upper caste in total population is around 5%(tamil nadu statistics). Where as they occupy the whole lot of positions in All good-coloured collar jobs(white etc).

The reservation is the same as reservation for Afro-American' in USA(all the companies- regarless of private or public). Unfortunately(Fortunate for some section) the social groups in India are Caste groups too.

The existing reservation is implimented paritaly. Till most of the Good-colored collar jobs are in the hands of uppercaste. However there is no attempt from government to even the uneven sharing of jobs in Bad-colored collar jobs(Lavatory cleaning etc).

While the upper caste person can become a temple archagar for a lower caste God. Govt, Supreme court, and other judicial bodies are banning a lower caste person become a archagar for an upper caste temple. is that a fair competition?

My opinion from the available statistics and from what I perceive everday is that the reservation should be more than 90% for other than upper caste social groups. And it should be compensatory reservation system.


That is for example if the reservation for a particular caste group is not filled in the bad-colored collar jobs then the reservation for the particular group should be reduced in good-colored collar jobs. (If it hurts somebody then they have to understand that the cricket mail hurts the oppressed people....Sarcastical approach is not a sole property belongs upper caste).


#3) There are people who say increase allocation to education instead of reservation which would help the socialy discriminated castes:


These people never ever lend their Voice for the solution they say. Till now, those social oppressors are struggling just to anihilate reservation. For those people: If their concern about India is Genuine, then they have to first join the struggle for Education&Employment to everybody. If it is implimented then they have the justification to struggle against reservation.


#4) Quality and Merit:


Latest cut-off marks for BCs and SC/STs in Tamil nadu professional -Entrance Exams for MBBS admission - Analyst, Jayaprakash Gandhi of Salem, notes that last year the cut off scores for MBBS entrance in the government colleges were (including the TNPCEE scores) - OC-295.74; BC -294.26; MBC-292.13; SC-287.56; and ST-274.00. Is the score 287.56 out of 300 is poor score and the SC people are idiots?
And there is no untoward incidents in India in any field that happened particularly due to poor quality Lower caste person.

Indeed there are majority of ugly incidents involving only upper caste people, starting from India' first Centeral minister sacked for corruption T.Krishnamachary to Stock exchange scam Harshadh Medha. And we have examples where low caste people went to villages to serve their people.


Let's see the below statistics which contradict the share of various social groups in population:


IPS Total => 3300, Upper caste(Brahmin) ==> 2376 ----- 72%


Ministry of Defence(Class I) Total==> 1397, Upper caste(Brahmin) ==> 1332----96%


Ministry of Defence(Class II) Total==> 7752, Upper caste(Brahmin) ==> 6762----87%


Ministry of Defence(Class III) Total==> 2127, Upper caste(Brahmin) ==> 1332----62%


And this is because of the fact that still vast majority of people are toiling in villages suffering two pronged devils 1) Caste oppression and 2) Economic depression. And lower caste people(poor and slum) in urban area(especially- Mid towns) also still uffering social discrimination in either way(economic and/or Caste).

Given this context inorder to give even opportunity to everybody, reservation is the only option available in this system. Inorder to distribute the available resources evenly, the other option could be 'Demolish this system - Revolution'.

Which one will You Choose?

12:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why cant the statistics of no of upper caste students studying in medical colleges as against BC/MBCs be told here.when the top ranks in the ent exam n most of the students in private med colleges r BC/MBCs,why is reservation required

1:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Instead of reservtions can the ministry of education not provide education from all the education cess being collected by our finance minister on all sorts of transactions.
What about the fundamental rights of me as an India Citizen when the constitution says there shall be no dicremenation on this very criterion?
Why am I to be discriminated against for something that happened centuries ago ?
If my fundamental right is voilated are we a democracy ?
Is the consitution being voilated by vote bank politics ?
Is caste a relevant criterion now or is it economical status ?

10:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"in no way reservations dissolve merit.those availing reservation are not dumb "
"cut-off marks for BCs and SC/STs in Tamil nadu professional -Entrance Exams for MBBS admission - Analyst, Jayaprakash Gandhi of Salem, notes that last year the cut off scores for MBBS entrance in the government colleges were (including the TNPCEE scores) - OC-295.74; BC -294.26; MBC-292.13; SC-287.56; and ST-274.00. Is the score 287.56 out of 300 is poor score and the SC people are idiots?"
"Reservation are given not based on caste. It is introduced to even the uneven sharing of lucurative, influential jobs by various social groups. The percentage of upper caste in total population is around 5%(tamil nadu statistics)."

To the 3 amigos who posted the messages above.....and of course... bonaparte.(..correct spelling).... i must say... those availing reservation are worse than dumb..... they have lost the sense of reason....must be due to genetic flaws......that... 1% difference is sufficient top prove the above.....if 5% of your population do belong to U.C. then why only 3% are getting into colleges.... is that not reverse discrimination......you must understand that tamil nadu is not india..... dalits have been oppressed by the OBC's in the rest of INDIA....by the yadavs..and jats who are both kshytriyas and obc's.....for ages ...not by Brahmins...who have only KNOWLEDGE not WEALTH..your agitation is not right for the rest of india where the line between obc/fc is blurred..open a news paper and read about the criminals from north india... are they not yadavs.. jats etc...how can they how own catle and land call themselves backward when brahmins do not even have a hut to live in....i repeat tamil nadu is not india and you must understand that you dalits have been opresed by the very obc's whom you support...not by the educated class who have only their education as their shield..... I am an OBC.from orissa.. and my floks own land ... we employ dalits.... and i am a doctor through merit.....tamil nadu is a different story and the reservation 70% that you guys enjoy is your undoing coz it will make this division between castes that was fading ... more apparent.... i never respected dalits who joined through reservations and i will not respect obc's.....who do.....there are thousands like me and do not include us in your statistics.... we are indian and equal....not lesser or greater than dalits..

8:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wish that somebody does something about the persistance of 69% reservation in tamil nadu despite supreme court directives to curb it to 49%...... any body wants to file a PIL... etc?.....this is another reason why the YFE cannot stop aggitation as the government and states wil not honor the apex courts descision...so why should we??If the govt. of tamil nadu rolls back then we can be assured that there can be reversal of quotas when they are no longer valid....as per dalit doctors claim that they are equal to the rest of the society... then there should be no more qoutas in tamil nadu.. the very persistance of qoutas above the limit recommended by the supreme court even after repeated reminders by the court clearly reflects political bias towards this issue... divide and rule??? i want Jammu and Himachal declared states for forward castes... the rest of india can go to dogs... or dalit as the case may be

8:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of people in Tamil nadu have changed their caste (to backward) in the last 20 years. That is how you have this ridiculous figure of 5% upper caste. Now, this means that a minority discriminated set of communities has to perform better in order to get admission. Doesnt it remind you of jews in Germany? But somehow this sort of discrimination increases the motivation to perform. Funny isnt it that even after so much discrimination, this minority continues to perform..
Good luck to the majority!

6:03 PM  

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