After 14 years of stop-start,the Women's Reservation Bill was finally passed in the Rajya Sabha.It is likely to usher in a new era in the realm of political discourse wherein every party would put their weights on different aspects of the propsed bill to facillitate their vested interests.Finally, if gets implemented with its very purpose still unscathed,it would nonetheless become the face of a truly revolutionised globalised progressive India.Women empowerment is one of the cornerstones of a respectable and liberal society and India needs it more than anyone to realise its dream of being a global superpower in the near future.
But before getting overwhelmed by the enormous potential of empowerment and social upliftment such an idea entails,we need to address one of the most pertinent and fundamental issues attached to the cause: Is quota the ideal way of bringing about the development and empowerment of a major half of our society or is it the most-efficient political tool of vote-bank politics catering to the eccentric subjectivism of our political system??
So before implementing the quota system blindly,the think-tank has to anaylse in an impartial manner the results of past quota systems-whether they have really uplifted the living standards of the target society, whether they have brought about the necessary and expected changes in the social,economical and intellectual standards of the concerned communities.However our current social scenario speaks otherwise, as a large part of the target section still reels under abject poverty, malnourishment and shameful living standards and and the whirlwind of globalization has added to the woes by widening the very gap between different strata of the society it was supposed to minimize.So the aftermath of this ambitious revolution wudn't be much different if we toe the same line as we had done before.
In this context,for the proposed bill to serve its noble and socially uplifting ambition,the political pundits have to transcend beyond their short-sighted political agenda and be objective in the approach .For our nation to play a major governing role in the new world order,we have to carefully envisage the possible unseen repercussions of every step we take towards making our society a liberal and progressive one.Good intentions ought to be backed by solid methods of implementation.
This was the article I wrote to get a job offer as a Freelance Writer though for a short while.
