Why Reservations? | Yogendra Yadav | TEDxAIIMS

An expert and pioneer in the field of policy making and political analysis, Shri Yogendra Yadav makes a case for why reservations are essential in India, even today. Touching on topics ranging from equality of opportunity, a stimulating thought experiment and protests involving the issue,he successfully suggests ingenious alternatives for fine tuning the current system.

Shri Yogendra Yadav has been India's leading psephologist and is the pioneer of comparative politics in India. An academician par excellence, he shall share his ideas, he is also the founder of 'Swaraj Abhiyan', a platform for alternative and clean politics.

[NoName-sjcv]

Everyone talks about reservation nobody talks about getting rid of caste. Caste system is poison.

[dineshnim]

Reservation can be a solution for limited time only. What we need is "Caste Free India"

[saurabhgupta]

The caste problem lies in backward regions of every state. Untouchability is still practised. The Thakurs and Brahmin and even Vaishya community of eastern UP and Bihar (what I've seen) are against reservations but at same time they are not ready to accept equality.

[Rupeshthakur]

Very Nice thought. I have never seen any such type of convincing presentation on need of caste based reservation in India. Thank Yogendra sir...i am your great fan since childhood.

[rijutamondal]

Loved the part of fine tuning of reservation.and the conclusion regarding what should the real question be..end of caste inequality not end of reservation..if the former happens the latter will automatically follow.Thank you yogendra sir.

[prees]

Thank you sir for ths elaboration. Equality Everytime cannot mean treating equally

[abhijitbaner]

we start a 400m race, one guy has a sack in his feet that bound him, the other can run freely; after a little time, when the guy with sack is at 100m, while the other 300m, we open the sack & tell him - now you are equal, go & compete.

[amankumarpqr]

The way Yogendra Sir speaks is so soothing. I can keep listening to him for hours. In this Talk, he also explains the difference between 'formal equality' and 'substantive equality'. I agree, "Equal treatment doesn't mean same treatment". Looking forward to read 'Theory of Justice' by John Rawls.

[devd_rx]

India will get reserved, Foreign will get deserved :)

[dineshnim]

Root cause of the problem starts when someone uses word - "Upper Caste" that makes selected people superior irrespective of whether they deserve this or not. There are people feel proud of it. For reference many people use their caste on cars as symbolic representation of their superiority. And note, this is not politically driven but public driven.

The day people start feeling proud on what they have achieved instead of which caste they belong to ... things will start changing and it many take one more generation.

[amritbansal]

i wish i had a teacher like YY at every stage of my life....the guy is pure gem!!!

[TheChintu-ilsq]

What a simple and calm speech about sensitive matter, he just calmly destroyed hypocracy lying in the matter with figures!! brilliant sir!!

[rounakdey]

A wonderful solution to create equal opportunity though very complex for execution but can be done by efficient lawmaking.

[CaptainRocky]

what a wonderful lecture.
thank you for enlightening us.

[yashsinha]

I don't want to air my views on reservation here, since social media tends to be a bad forum for policy discussions. That apart, this was one of the most rational discussion on reservation I've ever come across.

[humanrightsocialjusticewin]

Very Well said: In place of asking when Reservation will abolish, we must ask when this Caste Discrimination and Inequality will eliminate. Its a bitter hate of General category to mock & criticize the Reserved Category.

[kartikeymeghwal]

Even after being a doctor my mom faced discrimination from people who work under her and if reservations will be over what do u think the people who r in power r so moral that they will not discriminate against st sc obc

[tomatoisasquishyfruit]

I am OK with equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. I am OK with giving the lower class, right to free education, but not right to free jobs. You get college seats at lower or no cost at all, that too with lower marks. So study like everyone else and get a job. But instead, you don't use the college seat, you got for free, you don't work hard, and in the end you want a free government job too with your low grades. That is injustice towards the general category.

[abhigna_talakeri]

Brahmins are enjoying reservation in priestly wood job for more than five thousand years and still continuing

[TheQwerty]

I think reservations are legalized form of caste discrimination on a large scale authorized by government of india. If a son of poor cattle grazer gets reservations due to lack of resources then it is understood but if a son of an IAS gets reservations only because their caste is considered lower in SOME PARTS OF THE SOCIETY is not acceptable. Reservations is a concept of past. Now it need to be modified, what I come to conclusion is that reservations should not be for so called lower castes but for those who are below poverty line and hardly have any resources to achieve, what they want.