New Delhi: The reservation row that spread like wild fire in the summer of 2006 continues to simmer across India months after it started.
As more and more government institutes gear up for the quotas, there are some complications as well as regards the enforcements.
In the latest development, the Supreme Court on Monday said it will examine the issue of non-exclusion of creamy layers within the backward classes from the benefit of reservation in Tamil Nadu.
The apex court’s statement comes after Tamil Nadu government contended that it was difficult to identify the creamy layer for excluding them from reservation.
Discussing the issue, a SC bench comprising Justice A K Mathur and Justice Dalveer Bhandari promised to look into the issue on the basis of the recent apex court judgement in Kerala.
On February 23, the court had set aside the report of a Committee recommending raising of the annual income to Rs 2.5 lakh for exclusion of creamy layer from the backward class in Kerala.
The move had come after a Public Interest Litigation filed by an NGO, VOICE sought to forbid the state government from applying the existing reservation policy without excluding the creamy layer.
However, Tamil Nadu refuted the allegation of the NGO that it was continuing with the reservation policy and maintained that both the policy of providing 69 per cent quota and the issue of exclusion of creamy layer from the benefit if backward class reservation are pending before the apex court.
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