Mysuru Brahmin Association felicitates Revenue Minister R. Ashoka
Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka Government is likely to take a call on issuing caste and income certificates to members of the Brahmin community. At present, caste and income certificates are issued only to members of the SC, ST and OBC groups.
The Revenue Department has directed Tahsildars to issue caste and income certificates to economically weaker sections of those in the Brahmin community. Brahmins are in a minority, accounting for a mere three percent of Karnataka’s seven crore population.
The Government’s decision has been welcomed by Mysuru Brahmin Association and Revenue Minister R. Ashoka was felicitated in city yesterday. The ceremony was held under the leadership of Krishnaraja MLA S.A. Ramdas.
Accepting the felicitations, Ashoka said that following complaints that Tahsildars have been not issuing these certificates, the Department, in a recent circular, asked DCs to take steps to ensure issue of the same to economically weaker sections of the Brahmin community.
The Centre has enacted a law to provide 10 percent reservation to all candidates belonging to economically weaker sections, irrespective of castes. Income and caste certificates would help candidates avail facilities provided by the Karnataka Brahmin Development Board.
State Government would consider issuing caste certificates to the Brahmins so that they too can benefit from the State’s various welfare schemes. “Though Brahmins belong to the forward community, they are economically weaker and need financial support,” said Ashoka.
Brahmins whose gross annual family income is less than Rs. 8 lakh per annum will be eligible for the benefit schemes. “The Brahmin Development Board will soon be authorised to issue caste and income certificates to the members of the Brahmin community so that they can also benefit from the schemes,” he said.
“The Board also proposes to provide interest-free loans to the financially weaker sections of the people in the Brahmin community,” Ashoka added.
Mysuru Brahmin Association President D.T. Prakash urged the Minister to provide 10 percent of the State Government jobs and seats in the State-run educational institutions, including professional colleges.
Mysuru District and City Brahmin Association General Secretary Apoorva Suresh, Vikram Iyengar, Ajay Shastry, Kadakola Jagadeesh, Suchendra, K.M. Nishanth, Srikanth Kashyap, Chakrapani, Jayasimha Sridhar and others were present during the occasion.
“Brahmins are in a minority, accounting for a mere three percent of Karnataka’s seven crore population”
Brahmins are highly educated professionals, and when the state government started castigating them, and discriminating them in professional college admissions and jobs, they simply moved North, where even today, there is hatred towards Brahmins, and they were the first group of professionals who left India, and the brain drain started. I remember a few Gowda applicants, were given admission to Mysore Medical College , even in 1960s, rejecting a few more Brahmin applicants who had better marks, by operating the wicked Reservation and quota, and the education minister said at that time, he had to do it because these Gowda applicants as doctors would serve their communities. Well, they all tried to go abraod and sat for exams for entry and failed. The rejected appicants applied to North Indian Medical Colleges and got their admissions. They also sat for the same entry exams, and passed , and are now highly regarded specialists in US and Europe.
Recalling what TJS George said in his column aout Manusmriti: ” “From the eastern sea to the western sea, the area in between the two mountains [presumably the Himalayas and the Vindhyas] is what wise men call the land of the Aryas… Beyond it is the country of the barbarians.”
Yes, starting from Tamil Nadu which badly discrimnated Brahmins ( Thevars, pillais preferred), Karnataka (Gowdas, Langayats preferred), Andhra ( Reddys preferred) and Kerala ( Nairs preferred), and all these days, Muslims very preferred. it ihas been evident that the South is the country of Barbarians.
Correction: “North, where even today, there is NO hatred towards Brahmins”
Hello
I think what you meant to say that in the North there is even today no hatred towards brahmins. There is a typo there.
I agree with you 100%. Look at the Google CEO, Sunderam Pichai, studied in an IIT in the North and left for US. There are many like him, who saw that there is no hope for them in tghe South of India, moved to North and flourished occupying positions in the Central government. Others, professionals simply moved to US, UK and Australia as doctors and engineers first and as IT specialists next, and have flourished.
I tend to agree with George and you, about the remarks on the South.
What can Brahmins do in a country, where they have no value for merrit. What can Bhrahmins do in a country where they have no jobs in Govt. establishments due to reservations. What can Brahmins do in a country where they are minority and still considered as a part of majority Hindu population. Yes intelligent and affluent ones go to USA and European countries, and use their brains for the development of those countries. Economically weaker section struggle in life. Perhaps India is the only country in the world which is having castesim, and reservations. These have been prevailing from Maharaja time, and even after independence the curse of castesim and reservations have not vanished. Which ever party rules the country, they have not removed this curse. Even Brahma cannot change India during his life time.
@Prasanna You are wrong in commenting that casteism and reservations were in Maharaja’s time. Nalwadi Wadiyar picked Sir MV and Sir Mirza,as his Dewans. Sir MV was a Brahmin, Sir Mirza was a Muslim. Both were picked because they were the best men for the job.
During the British Raj, only meritocracy existed when selections for posts were made. Otherwise, Mysore university would not have flourished when it was created.
The reservations, backward castes, nonsense arrived after independence. There was no doubt some lower caste people were treated as sub-humans by the upper castes of not only Brahmins, but Gowdas and VeeraShivas as well, who put these so called untouchables to inhumane slavery work. Those Unfortunates needed reservations. Not Gowdas, Veerashivas and umpteen others, who argued that except Brahmins , all of them belong to backward castes to get the reservations for professional courses and jobs.
It is not true affluent Brahmins only went to USA and European countries. Many Brahmin students were poor, and had to get scholarship based on merit to go to university in India and USA. Had to work harder than others so called Backward Caste friends who enjoyed all the goodies that the state offered to them.
In the West, minorities, often not whites are encouraged to work hard and study to compete with the native whites. But they have no reservations for jobs. In USA , there is what is called affirmative action for blacks, who were historically slaves. But the pick for a job is always based on merit in USA and in European countries.
The intention of reservations was to obliterate opportunities for the best, based on merit, and this the politicians argued were always Brahmins. Hence, they wanted to decimate Brahmin community. They have achieved it. Brahmins who worked hard and achieved most in education saw no opportunities In the South, as the above poster said, and went first to North , and then to Western countries.
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka politicians were the ones who practised the Brahmin hatred to its limit, and chased away most of them. If you look at the percentage of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu, this must be still worse.
I too agree with TJS George on his explanation of what Manusmriti said. Yes, the South of Vindhya mountains bred Barbarians.
Brahmins have to thank all the people who discriminated against them because without that continuous attempts to stamp them down Brahmins
would not be so successful! It is the survival of the fittest and you feel a 100 times more if one is a Brahmin! If they also had an entitlement like many other groups, they would be rendered useless too! Yes, some section of Brahmins will suffer! But Starvation is a great teacher! Overeating has killed a lot more people than starvation!
@Balaji
The argument is not about Brahmins were made driven into starvation through blatant discrimination in terms of admission to professional colleges, denying promotion , and even denying interviews to jobs etc.. The question o starvation did not arise at all. Many bright students, even rank holders were denied medical college admissions, to favour backward caste candidates who secure marks just above the pass threshold. the country lost potentially excellent doctors, as those who denied admission, did not starve, but did study further and became good accountants, and even IAS officers.
Those who were denied promotion, left the government job, and joined the private sector,
But none starved.
Just for the sake of argument, starvation kills more than overeating. The example is in Africa, and even many parts of India where the poor has no means of buying food. Look at them. They can barely stand up.They do not look as nourished as Deve Gowda or Yeddi, the RSS Cheddi!