Exclusive ills of exclusivity.

Idea of exclusivity comes when we want to keep some facilities to ourselves only.This was revealed just now when Delhi government had declared that all children will play in parks and playgrounds near their home, even if the playgrounds are inside private schools. There are private schools which occupy playground in their vicinity and declare it exclusively for themselves. Some schools(with high fees) develop their own playgrounds and do not allow children of other schools to play in their playgrounds. But since the government has declared that all parks and playgrounds are for all children, the schools had to open their gates for the ‘other children’ This was not liked by the school authorities and the advantaged classes. They are trying to invent new ‘by-laws’ to prevent the use of their school’s vicinity being used by neighborhood kids.This is how rules of exclusivity are developed--for exclusion of ‘lower-class’ children. By finding ways to keep common facilities to themselves they are trying to fence away the lesser class children. When they do not even let the kids play in exclusively maintained private schools, they certainly will not allow the less privileged kids to study there. However government had last month made it mandatory to admit 25%  of school admissions from disadvantaged section. This was cunningly dealt with when earlier  15% rule was made. The afternoon session was given to the less advantaged children, and all labs(Science labs) were kept locked. This was exclusivity taken to extremes. It is by legitimizing exclusivity that the hierarchical caste system was evolved. Today even after abolishing the caste system, we keep re-inventing its ills.We are still having hierarchical mindsets and are very far from having egalitarian mindsets. No coercive rules or laws by government can change mindsets.May be sometime in future we will evolve the idea of equality amongst all, till then ills of exclusivity will continue to plague Indian society.