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Parents' struggle to get their children admitted to top-notch institutions starts even before the birth of their children. Nowadays it is very difficult to get admission to the kindergarten of a prestigious school. So, some parents book seats for their children even before they are born.
Nowadays 'Entrance Coaching' has become a 'multibillion dollar' business. Some parents do not send their children to regular school after class X but get them admitted to 'Entrance Coaching Institutes'. The students attending these institutes spend 15 to 20 hours every day in preparation for various entrance tests.
The question I would like to pose to everyone present here is this: Does admission to top- notch institutes guarantee a successful career? My answer to this question is an emphatic 'no'. If so, why should one struggle to get admission to these institutes?
I believe that success is the result of hard work. Great and successful people in the history of the world were hardworking. Many of them like Abraham Lincoln and A.P.J Abdul Kalam were not born with silver spoons in their mouth. Even our contemporaries like Sundar Pichai the CEO of Google was born into an ordinary family. Though he studied at IIT, Kharagpur, it is not his degree from that prestigious institute that won him success in life but his hard work.
If admission to a prestigious institute guarantees success, all those who come out of such institutes would automatically be successful in life. But the reality is not so. On the contrary, many who studied in ordinary institutes have become highly successful in life. I want to reiterate that we should control our urge to get into a prestigious institute in order to fulfil our desire to be successful in life. On the contrary, we should be determined to work hard to achieve success in life. ###
For the Motion
Worthy Chairperson, Secretary and Dear Students,
Today, I Sameer, stand before you to speak in favour of the motion, "The policy of reservation of seats for admission to the professional courses is good for the deprived sections of society".
The fact that the Indian society still remains a caste based hierarchical system is not unknown to anyone. The lower caste people have always been exploited by the high caste ones and have suffered the demerits of socio-economic underdevelopment to the maximum extent. The aim of reservations in admission to the professional courses is to bring the backward castes at par with the other sections of the society. Though it appears as a violation of the principle of equality, yet its justification is sustained by the obligation of a social welfare state. The backward classes suffer from huge issues, ranging from poverty to unemployment, without any fault of their own. And as citizens of the country, it's our responsibility to help them overcome the barriers.
Article 46 of the Indian Constitution says that the state shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people. Further, the clause 4 of the Article 15, added in the first Constitutional Amendment Act of 1951, clearly says that nothing shall prevent the state from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward class of citizens.
The Constitution was designed to help the deprived sections of society, and thus, the policy of reservation is justified.
Thank you!
Against the Motion
Worthy Chairperson, Secretary and Dear Students,
Today, I Kaveri, stand before you to speak against the motion, "The policy of reservation of seats for admission to the professional courses is good for the deprived sections of society".
There is no denying to the fact that the Indian Constitution provides reservation to the socially, culturally and economically backward citizens of the country. However, the policy of reservation stated in the Constitution was initially designed as an ad-hoc policy for ten years. But it never saw an end and continued to get extensions at the end of every ten years. The other people, who are deprived of opportunities to take admission in professional courses due to the reservation policy, thus get frustrated and angry and rightly so. In addition, the policy of reservation contradicts the principle of equality. Equality means equal treatment to all the people. Everyone has the right to avail equal and fair opportunities. But, special privileges and extra protection to certain classes of people based on reservation not only violates the policy of equality but also violates the very spirit of democracy. Further, the reservation policy has actually created a new class of vested interests in Indian society. These people permanently continue to earn the benefits of the reservation policy even after getting ample resources and opportunities. Thus, the policy has created the psychology of dependency among them.
Thus, this policy will actually harm the deprived sections in the long run and so it needs immediate suspension.
Thank you!
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