I think that reservation is important for ensuring the equitable access to opportunities and resources.

We need to work with multiple strategies for development. a major chunk of population does not have access to opportunities and facilitative environments. This happens due to their social, economic, political, as well as biological factors. We need to take these vulnerabilties into consideration and do two things parallely -

1. Provide opportunities through reservtion so that people get to use thier potential
2. Ensure access to resources for everybody so that people can realize their potential.

If i get 50% in my subjects...it des not mean that i cant do well otherwise..in other areas. if my education has been such that i cant score much as compared to people in Delhi...it does not mean that once i get admission , i wont do well in law/medicine/managemnt. I might need more support in my education even in post graduation..but you cannot question my potential and intelligence.

Let me take example from my school only... many people are forced to take humanities because they may not have scored well in 10th class examination. Thier opportunites are restricted. Tt is assumed that they are not intelligent and not worthy of studying science! but does that make you and others less intelligent? Have people studying humanities not done well in life? Have they not been able to achive their potential?

Yes..many have and many will because people like us got the environment. But so many people go not get such enabling environments and obviously cant score marks.

Reseravation should happen. Not just on the basis of caste but on the basis of other vulnerabilites too! There may be million examples of how people from adversity have potential but how whats unfair is that ..life gets decided on the basis of marks that you score.

We all know that our worth is much more than the marks we score! But when we decide for others..we want that to be taken into consideration.