Supreme Court questions quota to children of economically, educationally advanced families in backward classes
The Supreme Court is questioning the continued reservation benefits for children of economically and educationally advanced families within backward classes. The court highlighted that social mobility occurs with educational and economic empowerment, suggesting that affluent families should not receive such benefits. A case from Karnataka involving a petitioner denied a reservation certificate due to his parents' income has brought this issue to the forefront.
- ▪The Supreme Court is reviewing the reservation benefits for children of economically advanced families in backward classes.
- ▪A petitioner was denied a caste validity certificate because his parents' combined income exceeded the creamy layer threshold.
- ▪The court emphasized that social mobility should be considered when granting reservation benefits.
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Observing that with educational and economic empowerment, there is social mobility, the Supreme Court on Friday questioned the continued grant of reservation benefits to children of economically and educationally advanced families within backward classes.A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing a plea challenging a Karnataka High Court judgment which upheld the exclusion of the petitioner, whose parents are both State government employees, from reservation.Economics and exclusion: On Supreme Court upholding 10% EWS quota"If both parents are IAS officers, why should they have reservations? With educational and economic empowerment, there is social mobility."So then again, to seek a reservation for the children, we will never get out of it," the Bench observed while…
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