First step towards reservationless India?

I'm not sure how historic the Right to Education Bill is going to be, but it is definitely a step towards an India that might not need reservations in higher education at least in some distant future, closer than it seemed before this bill.

I was just reading through the news article - Free and compulsory education till the age of 14, fully equipped schools, properly qualified teachers - I'm not sure how much of these are going to come into practice, how wonderful will it be if they do! But I was really surprised to see this - 25% reservation in private schools for disadvantaged children from socially and educationally backward sections. How much I wished to see this for many years now!

I'm sure no one can argue that admission into primary schools is based on merit; it is actually everything except merit that goes into a primary school admission and it will be ridiculous anyways to be talking about academic merit for such tender age. So I assume people cannot stigmatize this reservation as talent pool dilution. However, I would have been even happier if I saw the bill also say something along the lines of either "refusing higher education quota for students who got reservation in primary school" or "reducing reservation percentages in higher education decade-over-decade". The minister says that this proposal has become a bill after 16 years, so may be it might take another 16 years for something like the above in italics to become a bill? Nevertheless, this is a non-trivial attempt towards building an India that all of us are dreaming of. I hope this exponentially improves education standards among the unfortunate children of our society. It's time we lived up to our childhood pledge of "All Indians are my brothers and sisters".

If you started to follow my blog only recently, please note that I am not against reservations, at the same time, I am not for reservations in it's current format. However I try not to blindly oppose anything and everything that does not benefit me nor blindly support anything and everything that benefits me.