http://www.newstodaynet.com/20aug/rf18.htm Private or public? Nobody, it seems, can beat Dr S Ramadoss when it comes to rhetorics. He is taking his self-appointed role of being the guardian of education in Tamilnadu so seriously that he is coming up with bizarre statements on the recent pronouncements of the Supreme Court on quotas in private colleges. This column had very recently explained how difficult it is to find fault with the Supreme Court's verdict. The logic is pretty simple: How can the government dictate terms to private colleges? It can put in place broad guidelines for overall running of colleges, but it has no right get into the business of reserved quotas in private institutions. But Ramadoss doesn't think so. In fact, he asserts it is erroneous to call these colleges as self-financing private institutions. 'How can you call them private colleges when they are getting fees from the public,' he asked at a meeting in the city yesterday. How ingenious! Socrates would be proud of this logical deduction. Anybody who gets money from public for whatever they offer cannot be private. So a restaurant or a dress shop, that obviously runs on public patronage, by the dint of Ramadoss's assiduously thought-out logic, will henceforth be a public enterprise. And if the Left parties also agree to his views, they can even become a PSU. The problem with these bleeding-heart politicos is that they have been so used to giving things from others pockets that they can't stomach the fact that they no longer can do so. If the political parties are so keen to ensure reservations for the downtrodden, then why can't they come up with institutions specifically for the purpose. In fact, that should be most logical thing to do. If you want to feed a hungry person, you should either cook him food or give him money to buy some. You can't order others to provide food. But that is what Ramadoss wants now. When Dr. Ambedkar raised the demand for reservation of jobs for Dalits, he probably never visualised that the issue would one day be deplorably exploited by politicians just to boost their vote banks. It was the cruelties that he had seen inflicted on Dalits that had motivated him to fight for their cause. In fact, he dropped the issue of a separate electorate for low-caste Hindus when the Congress Party acceded to his demand of reservation. Politicians play the game of reservations for ulterior gain and would not mind dividing the whole of society in the name of the quota system. The time has now come to ponder over the question of reservation and whether it is an effective policy to help the lot of the downtrodden classes or those living below the poverty line. The confusion over what is private and public is the least one would want in the circumstance. But who can stop Ramadoss?
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