Editor,
Let us face facts that we have now come to 50 years of golden statehood and it is time that experts on State policy matters (not politicians) should carve out a road map on how we empower our young people in capitalising their talents, skills, and knowledge and not through the reservation system.
A time will come when this categorisation of people based on reservation will end as witnessed today when any department comes out with a list of vacancies the number of applicants exceeds the requirement and moreover when the results are declared the reservation mandate kicks in which deprives many others with no influence at all in their favour.
The result is you have a system where categorisation matters instead of quality and skill sets. The generation today reflects a symptom of boredom where jobs are not made available and when opportunities are taken over by a section of the tribal community coming from the ‘creamy layer’ while the deserving are left out.
This is why the reservation system of our State has created more problems rather than solutions. Time is needed to find workable solutions to a ticking ‘ unemployment time-bomb’
