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Badge of Honour - Reservation and the Caste System

 For decades there have been countless debates and arguments on whether the reservation system should still be continued or is it time to bring forth a major amendment to the whole concept. The arguments has ranged from abolishing the reservation system as a whole to making the reservation system based on the financial status instead of caste based. The unfortunate truth of the reservation system is that the same hasn't brought the change that it was supposed to bring to the society neither is there another method of reservation that seems to be a better alternative than the existing one. If there was one, the country would have adopted that scheme long ago. The argument that vouches reservations based on financial status perhaps seems to overlook on the fact that there is indeed a reservation based on economical conditions such as EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) and especially with the introduction of differentiating between the creamy and non-creamy layers, the system is indee