quotas and classes

So it's back. Indian politicians are back with the age old agenda. Quota system. A system which adds marks to your educational merit because you belong to a certain class which is broadly defined as "backward" or "scheduled". A system which reserves places and posts for you because you're born in a family with a certain last name. A system which was probably introduced with good faith (but myopic sight) at the time when India became newly independent but now which only serves as vote banks for politicians who cajole the vast majority of rural population through such shenanigans.

Is this the right way of bringing prosperity to the a family classified in one of these castes? What if it was already prosperous to begin with? What about the unfairness caused to the one who missed the opportunity because he/she wasn't born in a scheduled family? If you really want to uplift the downtrodden, shouldn't the system be rather based on providing monetary support for education to the financially backward, when they are kids rather than gifting them an automatic seat or a position regardless of their abilities when they have all grown up in to nothingness?

How does the politicians plan to spread equality when they are hell bent on dividing the country based on such technicalities. But we all know this already, don't we? The Mulayam Yadavs know it and the Arjun Singhs and V.P. Singhs are aware of it. While the constitution must be respected it could also be amended to remove the clauses that allow such things to unveil. But it is definitely not happening today.