Moving Backwards... At incredible speed!!!

UPA government in India has declared that they want job reservations for the backward classes in the private sector also. According to me it is a great leap backwards. India is fast developing country with equality for all being one of the main values of the country. Agreed that the backwards need assistance to get rid of the shackles & rise up. But are reservations in education, public sector not enough and that too for almost 60 years now.

When the constitution was drafted, this provision was made to help India develop faster because a country with gross inequalities in classes would not develop as fast. If I am not wrong, the provision was made only for 10 or so years after which the reservation would have been withdrawn. But the politicians have used this issue to garner votes & win power. And the classes using this have become crippled mentally and they need this support in every wake of life.

If an opinion survey is taken among the people, I am sure people would want to abolish the reservations. My only plea to the honourable PM is that "Leave the private sector alone & competetive." The government has to realise that the private sector is no longer only Indian corporations but are foriegn corporations and that interfering too much in private sector operations will scare the foreign corporations from coming to India.

Online?? More like INLINE...

After a long time I had to go to a government office for some work. To be precise, I had to get my son's passport. I was overjoyed to see that the Passport office in Bangalore has launched a website to assist the application process. We can submit the application (basic information) online & then go after the rush is over to submit the actual form. I thought that I would just have to go there & submit it & it would be over in a matter of minutes.

How wrong I was!!! I went there to find that instead of online, its more of a INLINE process, just an extension of the normal process. Only difference is that you have two additional steps to do in submitting the form:
1. Submit an online application
2. Take a print of that form.

It would have been better had I gone there directly as there is a supervisor present who allots you a token number & then you wait till your number is called to get it verified & then again wait till the cashier calls your number. If there is something incomplete in your application, you have start all over again...

I thought Bangalore being IT capital of India, it would be easier here by means of automation. But, India has to go a long way in achieving that.