Who paid for your free lunches?
The Prime Minister is discussing the reservations issue with a group of ministers.. mulling over the Moily report, the news channels tell you. All the channels reporting on the issue ‘inform’ you reservations in central educational institutions are going to cost the government 17,000 crores. No, it’s not the expansion envisaged in these institutions to accommodate upper caste students who might lose seats that requires this ‘investment’ -it’s those damned OBCs…who are going to cost the country this colossal ‘expenditure’.
If the institutions had been expanded, without making any provision for new reservations, I’m sure the media would have found a lot of ‘merit’ in that .. colossal ‘drain’ on resources.
