“Monkeys will never let go of the garlands” – a Tamil saying

The proposed education reform marks the highest grade of ignorance of real issues.
While Kapil Sibal’s thesis is at best an uneducated drivel, the media debates reflect illuminating illiteracy.
The core issue of inadequate seats in colleges can not be wished away by changing the valuation from marks to grades. Till then, whatever criteria that the populist stream may advocate, the intelligent and hard working children will find a way of staying in the front of the queue.
The good news is that the Indian polity has not still found a way of usurping the intelligence genes from the minority haves and distributing them free thru quotas to the majority have-nots!