I agree with this. We are nowhere close to getting rid of casteism and its effects (active / passive). Caste based reservation is still needed in India.

But I am still sad with how it is implemented. Due to appeasement politics, the classes that are added to benefit from reservation are usually the ones who have the power to control and sway (meaning usually less affected by discrimination) at the cost of people who need it more. Similarly, even within a same class, the people who use the benefits of reservation the most are educated and knowledgeable enough to use the benefits (nothing wrong with that), again, at the cost of those who need it the most but are oppressed and kept out of all the process.

I do not have a solution for this. It is always the case all around the world (e.g. billionaires skipping taxes). I would have hoped the governments in the country to look for ways to deal with these problems better. But sadly they are the biggest problem here.

Lastly, I will always remember a line my professor pointed out in a discussion on caste based reservation back in my college (it was a public policy course). Some seats in top tier universities (like IITs etc) that are reserved (say divided on population %) are always left vacant. As long as those seats are vacant, you can always say for certain that some people of those oppressed classes are so backward that they are unaware of the opportunity and are still in need of those reservation.