I am from tamilnadu. I have to disagree slightly with the point of this article - that 69% reservation is the main reason for the spread of education. I think it is because of the the availability of the colleges/seats. Anybody getting a 60% aggregate in their 12th are assured of a seat in engg. college somewhere in the state(the quality of the institutions in another matter). It is an established fact that thousands of engg. seats go vacant every year in TN. Except for medicine, you can get a seat of your prefered course somewhere in the state. In this context, I believe the Govt of India should be trying to make reservation irrelevant - start enough public/private colleges. Encourage SC/ST/OBC to send their wards to primary/secondary education through perks. That I believe is a more sound solution than merely concentrating of just tertiary education.