Talking of Percentages

Percentage – the most amazing comparison tool we have. Of late this has been seen in use in every representation of numbers.

Recently everybody not so inclined to percentage calculations were forced to understand this thru the economic slow down all over the world or simply put inflation. Every other country whether developed or not so developed, are gripped by the fact called inflation. This is the truth of global economy. You cannot ignore it even if u want to. Result of this is obviously public unrest and may end up in war. Example of this extreme is Zimbabwe, where the inflation figures are over 150,000%.

Any way, the subject I wanted to talk about percentages here are the ones which our so called leaders are bother about. The reservations , or the so called Quota. Recently the politics won over the judiciary and management of the institutions by making sure that 26% of the seats are reserved to the OBCs. I am not against it and not in favor of it either. I do not want to talk about the origin of this so called OBCs and the reservations they are enjoying under the constitution of india.

The constitution of india by itself is a brain child of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, who gave independent india an extended set of steps and goals to achieve the true status of an independent nation. But our leaders were always exploiting as they were form before independence to the date and the fact is that the very basic constitution was amended by the powers of the people with vested interests in such a way that there is no more looking back. It cannot be set right any more, but to be rewritten.

Our constitution was in fact written to eliminate the caste system, more relevantly to bring the scheduled castes to a socially equal stance. A nice article can be found in the link (http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070815/independence/main9.htm)

But then instead of reducing the number belonging to this divide, the system kept on increasing the boundaries of this constitutional fact and was exploited to an extent that it can never be corrected.

SC(15%as per GOI) **

ST(7.5%as per GOI)**

OBC(27%as per GOI**

Now coming to the percentages, we all now know that the OBCs were not really included in the reservations provided by the constitution of India in its purest form. Rather there was no definition of OBCs as such. Reservations for OBCs is definitely not. This was included as an amendment to the constitution by so called caste politicians. So amendment of the very constitution in this case is an offence and disrespect done to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar whose dream of unified India will for ever be a dream.

Anyway, coming to the percentage math of this so called reservations, 27% is reserved for the OBCs as per the recent decisions by the Govt and the judiciary in acceptance with the caste politicians of our country. But will this percentage method be applied in every sense of the math is what is interesting.

Coming to the involved percentages, 27% is the reserved pie to the OBCs in educational institutions of India. Now if 100% is the maximum anybody can achieve in his performance, how will the criteria for deciding the minimum percentage for the reservations be decided?

Now as we know the cut off for these categories to be eligible for the competitive institutions are less than that required by a general category candidate. So if we can relate the reservation percentage to the eligibility criterion, then the person belonging to the reserver category should have a minimum percentage of x%, which is the Max scorred percentage – 50% mark. (Assuming 50% of the MAX is the reservation eligibility cut off).

Again, the best part of the reservations as in the current political stand point if a general category person has scorred 90% in a competitive exam, then the person in reservations category needs to score only 50% in the same exam to be eligible for whatever the general category person is eligible for. The fun part is what is the general category people all score only 50% or less..??? Reservations is obsolete…!!!!