Of the people, by the people BUT NOT for the people ...

... education at the IIMs must be 'means-blind', which means that anyone with the required qualifications must not be denied admission due to non-availability of means. The IIMs have not been following that entirely.

We prepare extensively for the entrance, to enter these prestigious abodes of education desirous of passing out and joining the hordes of unemployed youth, YET we are discriminated at the selection level based on the income of our families and those of us who can not secure education loans and can not pay the fees are arbitrarily left out, left behind.

Last I remember the IIMs, IITs and Law Schools were built under State Legislations, by the governments we elect, by the legislature that is accountable to us under the Constitution of India. What happened to the equal opportunity principle that we so dearly built into the system and each child at school is made to remember that preamble that proudly states:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Reference:

IIMs not following fair admission policy: Panel