u/RanatheWirter

Need an app developer from delhi

I want to have an honest conversation about something most people avoid because it immediately turns into a war.

Reservation.

Not the "should it exist" debate. That's tired and goes nowhere.

I want to talk about something more specific who it's actually reaching in 2025.

Two students I want you to think about:

One scores 97%. Middle class family. No backup plan. Loses the seat. No safety net, no wealthy parents to fund a private college. Just years of hard work and a system that said not enough.

The other gets in. And spends the next 4 years hearing "quota hire" every single day. She worked just as hard as everyone in that room. But nobody let her own her achievement.

Both are suffering. Both are being used.

Now here's the part nobody wants to say out loud

The creamy layer exemption exists on paper. But enforcement is virtually nonexistent. An IAS officer's child, a doctor's child, children of people who have genuinely moved out of disadvantage many still claim reservation because the system has no real mechanism to stop them.

Meanwhile the daily wage worker's child from the same community the person reservation was actually built for is still waiting.

This isn't an argument against reservation. It's an argument for fixing what's broken inside it.

The general category kid and the reserved category kid aren't each other's enemies. They're both losing to the same broken system one that never fixed the root cause, never built quality education for everyone, and found it more useful to keep both sides fighting each other every election cycle.

Your anger belongs at the system. Not the student sitting next to you.

Curious what people actually think about this especially those who've been on either side of it.