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I believe reservations should be capped the same family cant be allowed to use its over three generations (or some cap like that) considerations of income should be a factor. There should be continuous public data about from which demographic(location/ people who are the second or third generation in their family to use reservation ) so that the Government can make the system efficient and the public is aware that the sacrifices that the general category make are being used for something. This data should be publicly available and the government must be forced to directly make changes in policy and ensure public systems are in place so that people in need of reservations can actually avail them. I would love to see the data from the beginning regarding how many people who avail reservations are the first in their family and compared to generational quota users. And how that ratios between these two categories has changed over the decades.
(Anecdote- I helped our colony's vegetable vendor's son to fill in a post office Clerk form, the education he received in Government schools in Delhi is atrocious he got unpractical vocational subjects, he is not the one getting into IIT based on reservations, he doesn't have the bare minimum qualifications to even apply to DU beyond vocational courses which again offer no job security. When the Government for the last couple of decades has let the Government Schools systems deteriorate for so long often the people who use reservations come from families where there Grandparents broke the cycle decades ago and only these people can take advantage of the system. Again I understand this is not true for all cases, but this still needs to be addressed in policy considering that reservations are going to going on for several decades to come. But when the government lazily just keeps increasing reservation without doing the background work, reservation is not having the intended effect and it comes at the cost the general category. And that cost needs to be taken into consideration when forming policies)
It is also especially infuriating that the actual institutions that have the ability to directly force and compel change/ empower disadvantage communities directly irrespective of whether society is ready or not i.e., the Judiciary(HC/SC) and Parliament (Important Departments/Committees) don't have reservations.