Since the constitution came in to be we have been observing how the over hyped care and concern for the marginalized and left over has created a huge portfolio of sops of quota , reservation, concession and exemption which have been simply doled out or dished out without any well orchestrated planning to develop them to deserve it . It is a holy grail no one , executive , legislative and even judiciary even dare to touch upon as it always backfires(recently one such ruling by court of atrocity act is being reversed by Govt by ordinance). But these days another burden added to the selection process specially in the top institutes which are always revered as the center of excellence where the entrance processes are being simply tainted with a good dose of arbitrariness , randomness and caprices. We observed it in 2014 when St Stephen college, one of the most revered college in DU declared its own cut off with some riders and selected a hundred to delist half of them in the next few days with a solo quote of “regret”. No explanation , no explication just a single line communiqué “ we regret the inconvenience .We observed again it in 2018 when we saw in a recent entrance of IGDIR , the board suddenly changed the numbers of reservation with introduction a new entrant that (also after the entrance examination) and thus impacting the cut off (individual and summary both) with the new arithmetic which just caught the examinee napping in changed scenario who otherwise cleared the threshold taking by the judicious calls with proper hedge against risk of attempting any wrong answer loaded with negative marking. Now again we get shocked to see another premium institute called ISI instead of taking the entrance under the same aegis, with same question and running same curriculum of courses across its different city branches went for discriminatory cut off by compelling the applicant to go for single option rather than preferential choice which is tested and rationale norm across the universe (IITs, IIMs and so others). The very precarious situation created now where the students who after scoring higher cut off than the ISI-Kolkata , but just lower than ISI-Delhi simply gets deprived of any chance as they opted for Kolkata institute which they had to randomly (without any information to assess the risk of selecting any of two). The statistical institute suddenly forced the students to play the gamble which is simply uncalled for and unethical for any institute of education. The stake were so high that after even clearing cut off these unfortunate students (who had been forced to give undertaking for one institute of their choice) who toiled hard round the year , are feeling depressed by such ill luck. While meritocracy always respects labour rather than luck this institute just cherish the luck factor for their exam and now loves to be satisfied with a big chunk of examinee who scored less but got selected as their gamble clicked. What a crudest joke with selection process and that also from a premium institute which borrowed its reputation from the educationist like PCMahalanabish , SNBose and such others!!!