Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
Ideas of India
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The Supply of Good Quality Education Institutions
A lot of this grouse against reservation policy is rooted in the fact that ourour education system has not scaled with population, right? The size of the pie has simply not grown. What ends up happening is the reservation becomes a very easy target for people who presumably worked pretty hard,. And and then there is this huge sense of unfairness. So one very simple solution, i feel, is just increase the size of thepie. We could have a thousand more engineering colleges. But we need to focus on high quality higher education.
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