On 8 January, the Lok Sabha passed the 10 percent quota Bill for jobs and education for the economically weaker sections of the upper castes. That sounds good for a person like me who belongs to the general category (the so-called “upper caste”), but has faced adversity while preparing for a government job, or to be more precise, civil services.
I was able to clear CDS and CAPF written exams conducted by UPSC in my 3rd year of college itself, but couldn’t go beyond the mains. I went to Delhi after completing my BSc from a government university. I prepared for the exam with the help of a tutor and stayed in a single room. My economic conditions were not sound enough for life in Delhi.
I was left feeling helpless to see that some of the people I knew, who were from to a good income family, were selected only because their names were in the reserved category. I was in the so-called upper caste category, but a lower income group. Why should the poor from the general category suffer this way?