My take on Reservations: After all I am open!

Even while global markets topple, this one issue seems to be snowballing each coming day, what with the media, acedemia, students, parents, politicians and 'experts' all involved. And why not, the impact after all is just too huge to ignore.

I too have been trying to keep up with the so many emails, news and discussions surrounding this. Recently a student at IIT was commenting on how it was baseless to have reservations for any category unless they had the full potential to exploit it to their best advantage. Which means they work hard, excel and show the world that they made best of it. Which is almost not the case. Makes so much sense!

Also, in some discussion I heard that some guy, obviously bugged by the fact that he couldnt get through to his dream college, got converted to some 'caste' and succeeded in doing so. He also later managed to convert back to his original status by somehow withdrawing/revoking the certificate. What follows was astonishing. Some person in Chandigarh (I assume that's right) has been issuing all kinds of 'conversion' certificates to people at something like a mere 1000 bucks!

Now IF that is infact correct, then this whole issue is absurd. If politicians know of such fact, or they can trace such people - then they ought to do that first and streamline the certification process before asking for more. ELSE (and I frame it in perfect programmer perspective :-)), we all know how to secure our seats in the elitist of institutes in India.

If all open category students opt for such conversion, how do the politicos and the reserved junta manage to handle that? Doesn't look so bad does it?