Need vs Necessity

Every child born on this earth has a basic human right i.e. right to live happily. To survive on this earth every human does require access to few basic resources like food, shelter, clothes, medicine, etc. These are called necessity which you should have as basic proponents of life. Whereas there are certain things we desire to make our life better like AC room instead of a clay-tile covered roof top, Biriyani instead of rice-dal meal or 4 wheelers instead of two wheelers. These are called needs. We can still live without AC Room, Biriyani or 4 wheelers but we need these to make better off our life. 

There are so many reservations in our country for backward classes in order to pull them back into the mainstream or to eradicate the discrimination in society.But the privilege is being given for generation after generation. If father gets a job with hefty salary why his son does need to be protected under same reservation facility. Is his salary not enough to shoulder the burden of his family? This is the reason why many general cast people are deprived of even a simple job to carry his own expenditure. In the process of protecting one group of people’s interest we are putting other people at Jeopardy. The wheel is turning rapidly, very soon the minor would be major and major would turn into minor, it’s not too far when general student will need a “quota” or “reservation” amidst dominant backward classes.

 We live in a county where around 50% people leave below poverty line we should think twice before we use any privilege. It has been almost 100 years since the reservation was coined but the problem of backwardness still seems to be prevailing dominantly. The problem lies not in the efficacy of the law rather in the implementation of the same. The economic condition of the Indian people should be improved irrespective of their religion, race, caste, sex and place of birth. Moreover more we talk about reservation or more we point out people based on their type, more we remind them about their class or more we divide people. We should first fill up the basic necessities of the people then we can think of their needs. All the people under various reservation policies should think before they opt to be under such policy about whether it’s their need or necessity. In this way many people under general category but with poor finacial condition may avail the prievelege instead.  So it’s our responsibility to draw a line between need and necessity.