Quotas are a short-term solution
Quotas are a short-term solution
The director of the biggest B-school in India, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad says reservation can never be a long-term solution and that the Government should first concentrate on improving the basic quality of life and education of the deprived sections.
Says Dr Bakul Dholakia, Anyone who says that you have to create quotas is basically taking a very short-term view of the problem. And short-term solutions certainly dont last for a long time. So you have to take the hard way out and try and improve the quality of lives of the deprived classes.
Meanwhile an IIM-A alumni and now the managing director of Tata Industries Limited, Kishore Chaukar, says there should be an alternative to quotas in the private sector.
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