Doubt Clearance Thread: UPSC 2021
"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions."
Created this thread as a one stop solution for all members so that all the doubts wherein any conceptual clarification is required can be solved here.
@sjerngal surely you realise it’s not as simple as that? While I don’t discredit her and her sister’s achievements but this low cut off allows them to allocate more time towards mains, skip some topics entirely because the static portion is enough for them to clear the cut offs.Then the question of why are they even getting this reservation in the first place. Both have been students of a top college, both their parents were in the ‘creamiest’ of jobs. Surely there must be several needy people out there who could actually benefit from this ‘affirmative’ system? But as soon as someone attempts a critique of the system, there are people ready to defend and ask others to move on.I genuinely find it hard to not feel disdain for a system that is so lopsided that it’s creating a ‘brahmanical’ order within the ‘downtrodden’ categories.But yeah no one talk about this. Meenas taking all the ST seats, supremely well offs taking several SC seats, thanks to EWS even the historically ruling castes can get totally legit certificates made and avail ‘deserved’ benefits.I don’t discredit any individual’s performance but I certainly feel a lot of contempt for a system which is completely antithetical to the idea it was floated upon.
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This hate trolling should end
God forbid what if you were at her place or your sister or brother
This is very unbecoming if you are studying polity so much you know whom to blame so focus energies there not at trolling her or any other person
Why to demean this way ,true all of us kept something at stake in this exam but it is very unbecoming of us to laugh off or demean.
Who stopped us f
Just one thing your presumption that someone having benefit of reservation doesn't put extra mile for pre and only prepares to get past the category cutoff is completely flawed. First , usko sapne me nhi aata ki cutoff 70 jayega ya 80 jayega. Second, beneficiaries of reservation are under extra pressure to get everything right because they know their "merit" will subjected to scrutiny. In case of Ria Dabi she must have already known this since Tina Dabi was also trolled for her pre scores. Third, the pattern of prelims is such that it cant be seen as a test of someone's knowledge at all. someone said that Kanishka Kataria wasnt questioned at all because he cleared from general merit. But bro did he not apply in SC category. It just so happened that he managed to get a good score in pre, if he hadn't it's not like he would have not joined services. Fourth , if you care so much about underprivileged of OBC and Sc and ST, why is it that you don't question the system where privileged Upper caste guys from families of IAS and IPS make it to the list. Don't you have any empathy for marginalised of your own caste /class people? The fact is UPSC is an exam of elites. Elites from General, elites from EWS, from OBC , from SC and so on . Dont live in an illusion that had Ria not applied in SC some poor , marginalised Dalit would have gotten in.
PS- there should be a rule that someone having his parents in Group A service should be excluded from benefits of reservation. Question the system not the ethics and morality of the individual candidates.
Just one thing your presumption that someone having benefit of reservation doesn't put extra mile for pre and only prepares to get past the category cutoff is completely flawed. First , usko sapne me nhi aata ki cutoff 70 jayega ya 80 jayega. Second, beneficiaries of reservation are under extra pressure to get everything right because they know their "merit" will subjected to scrutiny. In case of Ria Dabi she must have already known this since Tina Dabi was also trolled for her pre scores. Third, the pattern of prelims is such that it cant be seen as a test of someone's knowledge at all. someone said that Kanishka Kataria wasnt questioned at all because he cleared from general merit. But bro did he not apply in SC category. It just so happened that he managed to get a good score in pre, if he hadn't it's not like he would have not joined services. Fourth , if you care so much about underprivileged of OBC and Sc and ST, why is it that you don't question the system where privileged Upper caste guys from families of IAS and IPS make it to the list. Don't you have any empathy for marginalised of your own caste /class people? The fact is UPSC is an exam of elites. Elites from General, elites from EWS, from OBC , from SC and so on . Dont live in an illusion that had Ria not applied in SC some poor , marginalised Dalit would have gotten in.
PS- there should be a rule that someone having his parents in Group A service should be excluded from benefits of reservation. Question the system not the ethics and morality of the individual candidates.
Hear hear!
@TheNotorious Official UPSC answer is C-constitutional right
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