Is reservation based on religion acceptable?

the reservations are not for religion....,

it is to help poor who normally are the S.C ,S.T in india...,

it has no relevance with being HINDU or MUSLIm...,

recently in hyderabad MIM leader Assaduddin Owaisi

has shown statistics of very less % of muslim getting educated....,

it is basically they give more importance to moral studies than rest....,

how can govt help that...., the % of muslim employed children is very high ..., even though these children have parents..., the reason is the have more number of children with every house...,

a reservation on the grounds of religion is not acceptable n it is not hte answer...,

The answer is {HAVING LESS CHILDREN}

this statement would have become true if it were to be 50 yrs ago. but today,every indivisual is developing by sorroundings and not by caste/relegion.it may be noted that today even villages are mostly equiped with basic communication systems and are aware of what is happening around them.this is enough for development and certainly the reservation which has to be scrapped long ago will not exist.

Reservations shouldn't be based on religion / Caste etc.. Everyone is equal (at par) in our democratic India.

In fact, there should be some reservations for EBC (Economically Backward Classes)

For all others, it should be as per their credentials

At the time of independence, in India people from certain religion and class were really backward and a immediate measure was required to strike equilibrium in this secular republic recently formed. Reservation was the answer to it. But it was a practice for a while which we are blindly following may be because of Vote Bank politics. this has emerged as one of the major disadvantage of democracy in recent times. In current scenario there seems to be no room for reservation and that too based on religion. Also those people who are vouching on the basis of economic backwardness ; I have a humble question to ask. Is it really possible to judge the economic status of an individual in our system? And if it is they why our economy is still a parallel economy? However not deviating from the topic I would suggest being a bit liberal that if at all reservation needs to be given space give it in form of free and subsidized quality education and then let the competent get the position.

No it might be attaining the objective of reservation but it is also separating us from each other.

There should be reservation only for economically backward class. I oppose other resevations based on caste or religion. 

India has always portrayed itself to be a secular state. Giving reservations to the deserved ones can be acceptable but introducing reservations based on religion in every sector be it education, jobs etc. is going to deter brand image of India Inc. in the long run. For example- IIT and IIM colleges are world renowned because of their quality education but promoting reservation in them would deteriorate their image globally. Why would people deserving an opportunity should suffer? If we need to think globally we need to implement practices from grass root level itself.

I do not think this is a right decision made by the government. India is a secular country and giving special benefit in the name of religion is higly "un secular". Moreover, Muslims cannot be considered as minority any more in India since, by seeing their increase rate in the last decade, it is predictable, within the next 20-30 years, India will be a muslim majority country. Thirdly, Quota system has already been breaking unity in our country and filling hatret in the hearts of General and Reserved citizens. This Quota will break our country on Religious basis. Our country is losing chance for talented candidates because of this Quota system only resulting in Brain drain. This increase in Quota system will furthur reduce our development.CPM government did this to regain Muslim votes it lost to TMC in WB. But it is not able to see what may happen to the general talented candidates because of this. So, there shouldn't be any Quota system in the country or, there is a possibily that the creamy layer may get all the benefits and the real people in need may not get the benefit. So I think Government should give economic help to the really needy people so that only "needy people" get the benefit....

Superb comment Mr. Prasad. I agree with you. You have really raised a very alarming topic. I am proud of being a part of this discussion. Really, Quota in the name of religion will increase the tension between religious groups in our country and also due to increase in reserved seats to almost 45%, West bengal will now face a lot of problem of lack of talents who will migrate to other states for opportunities leaving WB's progress far behind. I really feel pity for the state whose leaders are not allowing it to progress just for political profit.