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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Two pieces of NEWS

I was watching the news and two stories caught my eye.

1. It has been proposed that reservation(for SC's, BC's, OBC's, LT's, dimwits, morons) be increased in higher education institution and even IIT's and IIM's, by 27% to a total of 50%.

2. Harayana is attracting alot of companies, foreign and domestic, to setup shop there.

Here is why.

1. The news of the reservation quota being increased should not have come out before the UP elections. But for obvious reasons (so that those people I mentioned above (dimwits and all) will vote for the proponents of the law and be in power. Of course the BJP has said this is against election conduct rules).

What this means statistically is the joke that goes "out of every 100 people in your class 10 will be idiots" will now become "out of every 100 people in your class 50 will be idiots".

The reason I call them idiots is because quite frankly ...all people under reservations are.

The reason the reservation system was introduced is because apparently, they were "the oppressed castes" about 100-150 years ago.
And it stays now because they are economically backward. Well of course they are economically backward. They want to ride through life on their caste certificates and don't want to work hard.
If they had the brains maybe they would realise that and make themselves "economically forward"(can you say that?)
The only reservations I will ever agree to is to student's who have excellent grades and can't afford to go to great schools and colleges, irrespective of caste. I don't even mind paying 1.5 times the fees if it helps them out, from the extra that I pay. But just plain old caste reservation sucks.

No wonder we don't progress very much. Of course, I am in the open category and so feel strongly about the whole situation.

In this day and age, am I not "the oppressed" one now. Hows that for irony "the oppressed" oppressed me, "the unopressed"!?!?!?!
Catch more over here.

2. Haryana is attracting a lot of foreign and domestic companies. This is because they are giving them SEZs (special economic zones). Don't know the exact details... may be the companies get a tax break or something. Reliance petrochemicals is planning to open their biggest refinery in Haryana soon. Even bigger than the one in Jamnagar.
Even DLF is moving to Haryana (and one more company whose name escapes me).

And why not move to Haryana?. If your company's labourers go on strike..just call the Harayana Police and they will beat the workers like dogs and get them back to work.(Read this to get that last one)


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