Supreme Court judgment worries that overzealous booking tends to impact rights of other neighborhoods
The Supreme Court is right in thinking about cent percent reservation as anathema to the constitutional plan of equality even if it is for the admirable goal of offering representation to historically deprived sections. The decision quashing the reservation of 100%of all teaching posts in ‘Arranged Locations’ of Andhra Pradesh for local Scheduled Tribes is not against affirmative programs as such, however a caution against implementing them in a manner harmful to the rest of society. A five-judge Constitution Bench found that earmarking instructor posts in locations notified under the 5th Set Up of the Constitution negatively affected the interests of other candidates not only from Scheduled Castes and other backwards neighborhoods but also o