New Delhi, Jan 19 (PTI) A plea has been filed in theSupreme Court seeking exclusion of the creamy layer amongSchedule Castes and Schedule Tribes from getting anyreservation benefit.
The matter came up before a bench comprising ChiefJustice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D YChandrachud who asked petitioner NGO Samta Andolan Samiti toserve the copy of the petition on the Centre within a week.
"Let a copy of this petition be served on the Centralagency within a week hence. Matter be listed after two weeks,"the bench said.
The plea has contended that benefits of reservation andother government schemes given to SCs and STs were notreaching the actual beneficiaries due to the creamy layer inthese communities which were taking away the quota benefits.
"The benefits of reservation policy are not percolatingdown to the people who are in actual need of the same and thepractice of including the members of the creamy layers of thesaid communities has resulted in abuse by the advanced andaffluent members of the said communities," the pleaIt said the affluent sections of the SC/ST communitieswere "snatching" away the maximum benefit and 95 per cent ofthese communities were in disadvantageous positions andwithout any benefit of reservation and government schemes. PTISJK PKS ABA MNL RKSARC.
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