Principle in SC quota doesn?t apply to OBCs

Updated on: Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the principle behind quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was very different from the one under which Other Backward Classes (OBCs) were given 27% quota in educational institutions.

Hearing arguments on what should be the admission criteria for OBCs at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, the bench said SCs/ STs were granted quota as they were being oppressed for centuries, but the same was not true for OBCs.

“Reservation for OBCs was judicially upheld after taking out the creamy layer from the purview of the social affirmative action. But there is no creamy layer exclusion for SCs and STs,” the bench said. Thus, it needed to examine whether OBC students in the merit list should be counted within 27% quota allotted for OBCs in central institutions, the bench said.

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