Reservations in India

Kinds of Reservations we have in India.

1. Reservations based on Caste. (SC/ST/OBC)
   
2. Reservations based on Religion. For example, Christian Minority Colleges, and Muslim Minority Colleges takes students only from their religion.
   
3. Reservations based on Location. For example, in Andhra Pradesh, there are three areas, Coastal, Rayalaseema, and Telangana. All the Engineering colleges have reservations for each area. If somebody is from a location, where there is no better rank, then, he/she would get whatever seat he/she wanted irrespective of the rank. In Maharashtra, Junior Colleges have 70% reservations for the local candidates in the same district. Many states have this kind of reservations, but, the size of the location varies (district, or one third of the state, or the entire state etc.) There are also reservations based on whether one lived in rural area or urban area.
   
4. Reservations based on Sex. (33% reservations for ladies).
   
5. Reservations based on the Medium they studied. Karnataka has this kind of reservations where they prefer people who studied in Kannada Medium.
   
6. Reservations for NRIs.
   
7. Reservations for Anglo-Indians
   
8. Reservations for Children of Political Sufferers.
   
9. Reservations for Children of Ex-Servicemen.
   
10. Reservations for Children of Defence Personnel.
    
11. Reservations for Government of India Nominees.
    
12. Reservations for Migrants from Jammu & Kasmir.
    
13. Reservations for Linguistic Minority
    
14. Reservations for Physcially Handicapped
    
15. Reservations for NCC.
    
16. Reservations for Sports
    

These are the reservations that I know. Are there any more reservations in our SECULAR India? Few people are suggesting to have reservations for scientists to send to space, and sports etc. But, there are already reservations for the scientists posts in BARC, ISRO, and DRDO. If Arjun Singh gets the portfolio of Sports, he will not mind introducing reservations in sports except cricket. Because, anyway, nobody cares about other sports. So, he can start reservations in other sports, then he can slowly bring the reservations to Cricket as well, with the inspiration from South Africa Cricket team. It is not a very difficult thing for great minds like Arjun Singh.

Except in defence, and law, every government company/organization has reservations atleast based on Caste. I would like to introduce one more reservation.

Eventhough there are reservations for Medicine, the under-privileged doctors (Read it as those who fall in the above categories) are not getting the recognition they deserve. Now, they should introduce all the above reservations in treating all the politicians. If there are 100 operations performed on politicians, then 15 operations should be done by SCs, 7 should be done by STs, and so on. Among those 15 SC doctors, they should give equal importance to all the regions of the district/state/country. Like this, all the reservations should be applied for all the doctors to treat politicians for all kinds of treatments from operations to normal consultancy. If any politician violates these reservations, then we should use the Act introduced by Indira Gandhi and arrest them with the non-bailable warrant for discriminating SC/STs. Actually, we need to have these kind of reservations so that, the under-privileged people also will get enough opportunities. I strongly recommend our government to introudce this reservation as soon as possible.

#region in C#

Jeff Atwood posted a nice article on Coding Horror about #region and code folding.

We should not write code which is useful for the editor and not for the compiler. Most of the IDEs already provide folding methods, and comments without writing anything extra. If you are using #region in a method, because it has too much code, then, probably, you may have to refactor the method. If you are using #region for set of methods, because you have too many methods, then probably, you may have to refactor the class.

Most of the developers prefer to read the code, and comments which explain about the code. But, not the directives to the editor.

One great thing about Visual Studio 2005 is, the search functionality will not search in the folded blocks. I really want to give Turing award to the person who came up with that requirement.

On Godse, Gandhi and Hindutva

http://arvindbatra.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-godse-gandhi-and-hindutva.html

The above article is one of the very good articles that I read in the recent time. I suggest everyone who is interested in history or politics to read this.


By the way, it is written by my ex-colleague Arvind Batra.

License & Copyright

For the last one month, I had seen several discussions about Copyrights and Licenses. I thought, I would also have the License for my blog.

The following license would be applied to my websites including blog.tnsatish.com, www.tnsatish.com, www.mangalagiri.net, www.mangalagiri.org, www.showmedirection.com.

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For those who do not understand the legal jargon, the license in four words.

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Dialogues in Sainikudu Movie

This is one scene in the telugu movie Sainikudu (Soldier).

Dialogue in Telugu
Thana jeevitham praja sevake ankitham. Biddalanu kuda kanakunda kadadhaka prajasevake ankithamyna oka Puchchalapalli Sundaraiah kavali. Kattu battulu thappa karlu medalu asinchani oka Vavilala Gopala Krishnaiah kavali. E desaniki rendu sarlu pradhana mantriga panichesina sontha illu kuda sampadinchikoni Guljarilal Nanda kavali. Shyam Prasad Mukherjee, B.R.Ambedkar, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Abul Kalam Azad, Kamaraj Nadar, Prakasam Panthulu. Veellu Veellu kavali.

Dialogue in English
A man sacrificed his life to serve the people, never had any children. He is Mr.Puchchalapalli Sundaraiah. We need someone like him. Apart from a pair of clothes, a man who never wished for luxury life. He is Mr.Vavilala Gopalakrishnaiah, we need someone like him. A man who was Prime Minister of this country twice, but could not afford to own a house. He is Mr.Guljarilal Nanda, we need someone like him. Shyam Prasad Mukherjee, B.R.Ambedkar, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Abul Kalam Azad, Kamaraj Nadar, Prakasam Panthulu. We need people like them.


I liked this scene very much and watched uncountable no.of times. When I watched first time, I liked it, but did not realize why the writer did not include few others. But, after I started reading politics, and history of india post-independence, I realized it very much. Till some time back, I thought one Prime Minister was a great person, and recently I came to know that, that Prime Minister killed democracy and is the worst Prime Minister we ever had. That PM did all the bad things, and P.V.Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh recovered india from those mistakes in early 90s. Today, when I told my friend that Prime Minister X was the worst PM we had, the reply was, "I knew it very long time back".