IBN reports

While Salve had strong opposition to the Central Educational Institution (Reservation for Admission) Act, 2006, senior advocate K Parasaran, appearing for the Tamil Nadu Government said: “They (upper caste) dominated for centuries and now they should suffer.”

Is that the idea behind reservations? Retribution? Dumb advocate doesn’t know why reservations are there in the first place. I wonder how many policy makers understand the reason behind reservations that they so vehemently support.

I think the court is asking the right questions. It is the govt’s responsibility to answer those questions. I think they should come out and present their case strongly or else back out and come back again once they have enough material to make a strong case.

“The identification of OBC must be based on sociological and statistical data. It cannot be on personal expression, data or hunches,” he said adding that “political compulsions are driving the reservation policy.”

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“Creamy Layer has no place in the reservation system,” he said maintaining that “reservation has become a measure for entrenched right.”

I totally agree that the current round of reservations are driven by political compulsions. But since it is out there now, the govt should take this opportunity to build a strong case and if they really want they can collect the desired data and I think can still make their case. Even if the govt. is not sincere in its effort, it can still go ahead and collect humongous amount of data and use statistics to derive favorable results. I can bet with such a huge country, the data will have enough points to conclude this way or the other. The amazing part is that govt. has done nothing so far to prove its case other than empty rhetorics.

About the creamy layer, I totally agree. The trouble is setting the right criteria fro creamy layer.