superstition and caste system in India

If we think about problems of India in 21^st century many aspects come in mind such as economical, social, and political problems. But I would like to focus on the two main social problems in India of 21^st century but that are actually centuries old problems but still we did not overcome from it.

Those two social problems are superstition and casteism. First of all if we talk about the superstition it is not only in illiterate peoples but also in well educated people. If educated people will be in the trap of superstition then it will be not fair to expect reforms in illiterate people. Though this problem came in light 200 years ago and then social reformer tried their best to vanish it from peoples mind but still we did not get success to achieve it in full manner. And we are getting into new class of this kind and I will call it educated superstitious class. It really hurts when any professional talks about superstitious things and it is more difficult to make them aware about it , as far as my attempt concerns most of time there answer is that you are not mature enough and it questions out me that, is this shows maturity? Then I don’t want to be mature. Many such incidences you will find in your day to day life.

So it is important to reform the educated superstitious class, only then we can vanish the superstition in our society.

Second problem is casteism it is also our one of the century’s old problem but it is taking another form. In this first aspect is that still in some villages people faces the problems like caste abuse, boycott, etc. it is really dangerous and problematic that we still did not come out of mentality of casteism. And peoples start calculation of caste after hearing surname of any person.

Now another aspect of this is reservation which is really debating issue in our country and particularly about fees. The weapon of government to determine the class of reservation is caste certificate. It is fine and appreciating that government encouraging weaker section to participate in development of country. But question is that, are they confirming about it that they are going in right direction? Let’s not go in deep, just we will think about fees concession. Is it really fair that one person’s family income is 1 lac per year and another person’s family income 6 lac per year and latter have to pay nil and first one has to pay full fees for any government forms, etc. so question arises about solution for this problem one immediate solution is to apply non-creamy layer certificate to every class and immediate question arises about its credibility because of many fraud income certificate or say not showing real income. But this problem too have solution if we do full use of technology, for example if all government employees data brought on one software which will give all details about employee with just entering their some details like name, DOB, etc. and if we use it at the time of giving non-creamy layer certificate so at least we will get off with some problem.

Another solution which should be aim of India is to ban on caste certificate and there should be no caste identity. Because I think problem lies with caste which we legalized it with document. It shows that how we fond of caste system that we give proof of it by legal document. It questions out that did we really now have need of it? It is also right that it will take time to abolish caste system but one day we will achieve it. Which was dream of many social reformers of India.