Is it justified to reduce the eligibility bar of IIMs for a reserved category student knowing that there are more deserving candidates?

Reservation has widely been a debated issue in our country since a long time. A person should not focus on reservations, instead you should focus on your preparation strategy of CAT. Anyone who prepares well enough has the potential to crack the Exam. It’s not our call to decide on deserving or non-deserving candidates, it all depends upon the interview panel which takes the final interview. Coming onto why bars are reduced for reserved category for IIMs because it’s said by the constitution of our country to provide reservations to backward sections of the society who could not avail same opportunities which a general person can avail in his life time for himself as well as his/her children. Thus to uplift that section of society and bring them, at par with the society is the purpose of reservation.

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I fear a question of such type is indicating towards the whole reservation system, but yes, let's see it without using anything inappropriate or wrong. The system is an old one. It was introduced when there was the need, but now the time is changing and it is not serving the purpose which it was serving years back. The bar is lowered for such students. But sometimes they don't need it. The one who needs it can't get the benefits, there are some who needs it. So, there should be some change in the system. We can't totally say that the system should be scrapped and more deserving candidates should be allowed in. Deserving candidates should not be harmed and the ones from weaker sections should also get chances to rise up. This is my opinion and the same is my thought about IIMs eligibility bar for different students.

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Let's See. The reservation system is unfair to some extent but I don't think it is not at all necessary. There are any students who actually lack resources and should get a fair chance to get into IIMs. But there is a small problem. The eligibility bar has to lowered for these students but to a certain extent only. For general category you need 99+ percentile to be eligible for top 3 IIMs. But for ST students it is too low. Lowering it to maybe 90-95% maybe okay but lower than that surely deteriorates the quality of students getting into IIMs. According to me 90-95% is okay. If there are still reserved seats remaining then they should go to general category students. So, in general, I think it is okay to lower the eligibility bar only to a certain extent for reserved students unless the quality of the students isn't being compromised to great extent. Maybe really poor students could be exception to this rule.

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