If you dream of a modern India, caste based reservation needs to be done away with.....reservation is not needed for a persons surname. If you want to elevate society give facilities to the poor. Reservation in educational institutes will not bring up the mental level of an individual...and it demotivates the so called unprivileged ones from working hard. For example, one of my colleagues is from IIT where he got reservation in the SC category. Now he earns 1 lakh per month and this year he got admission into IIM with a meagre 90 percentile whereas people with 99.9 percentile do not get in just because they are from the general category. On what grounds does this gentleman need reservation? Someone earning 1 lakh rupees per month is definitely not underprivileged.

Sorry Mr Modi, but if your government is as progressive as you say, then it will definitely do away with caste based reservation.