Crap. Gas. Zilch. Just because the govt doesn't do its job of building proper schools, having good teachers and running them, it has been gunning higher education and now even thinking of jobs. Affirmative action, yes, but unfair action, no, no and a big no. Even in the US, from where the supposedly informed author's "affirmative action" comes from, it's the deserving candidate who gets the seat and only in case of a tie does the unprivileged person get an upper hand. Yes, SC/STs have come up, but at the cost of much more deserving students. Stop this unfairness. Govt., and particularly the unconscionable Arjun Singh, consider doing your primary job rather than asking others to part with their fair share of the pie. Have a level-playing field, better your govt schools so that the unprivileged don't see the well off getting better education at pvt schools and move ahead in life; so that they have an equal chance at cracking entrance exams and when facing interviews with corporates. Don't screw the lives of those who deserve to go better places, or they surely will, as it happened in the 80s. Stop. Stop. Stop this crap.