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Another Political Experiment - Now Reservation in Promotion

Recently promotion through quota system was breaking news on almost all Indian news channels, lot of us enjoyed discussion on this topic but the question remains untouched and unanswered. When we look at the arguments that ruling parties and their allies are making it looks like we are not willing to push the status of the reserved class people. It clearly indicates that we want to keep them where they are. Consistency on providing reservation first at entrance examinations and now in promotion shows that how bad the policies are designed. Very good example of policy paralysis. Providing reservation in different state and central government services will have its own adverse effect on the system, where productivity will suffer due to dissatisfaction of talented resources. Few people are advocating about the representation of caste in every area of public service as their old generations have suffered a lot, fair enough but what about the talent. One should clearly understand whe