Rights & Enticing Objectives
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: September 10 2015 -
The polemics over whether or not affirmative action and positive discrimination are controversial issues still continue to haunt political observers and analysts in the post colonial world. The debate has been kept raging as groups of political class keep switching means as goals and goals as means.
Despite the differentiated views and perspectives, there is a consensus on accepting that the objective of affirmative action had been to accelerate the creation of a representative and equitable workforce for those who are in a historically disadvantaged position to fulfil maximum potential.
However, any measures taken up by the Government as well as demands related to affirmative action invoke emotional outbursts.
It is under this context, one should understand demands made by certain sections of the people who feel that they have been left out from availing the benefits reserved for the socially and economically backward communities.
While assessing the demands in its historical perspective, most observers often see the issue purely from the parameters of the end objective.
This is why, there is a need to relook at why and how unscrupulous politicians have taken maximum advantage of the objectives of positive discrimination and affirmative action.
Once the people are trapped within the whirlpool of enticing objectives, there is every possibility of deepening the dependency syndrome based on a incorrectly assumed notion that there will always be a provider
to the needs of the citizens.
The advent of Modern Nation States has necessitated the framing of numerous rights and privileges of citizens.
While providing constitutional rights which are aimed at protecting the people, most countries claiming to be Nation States have been burdened by intended as well as unintended impact.
The results of framing policies in a country like India are directly or indirectly related to the notions of protection and empowerment.
The citizens often find it difficult to understand the difference between the two and the predicament arising thereon and this has most of the time led to unprecedented impact and a kind of situation closer to socio-economic and political chaos.
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