Enforcing reservations in faculty jobs is a way of concealing governance failure at all levels in education. There is a crisis in higher education and HRD minister Prakash Javadekar’s proposed solution will worsen matters. India needs to enhance the quality of its higher education and this can only be done by improving the work environment for faculty and opening it up to competition. Moreover, reservations at faculty level are tantamount to an admission that reservations at lower levels have failed in equalising opportunity. Poor governance at school level and muddleheaded policies in higher education have hurt young people.

Source: Times of India September 25, 2016 20:35 UTC