New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today questioned whether children of families that have achieved educational and economic advancement through reservation should continue to avail other backward classes (OBC) reservation benefits, observing that such advancements result in social mobility too.
“If both parents are IAS officers, why should they have reservations? With education and economic empowerment, there is social mobility. So then again to seek reservation for the children, we will never get out of it,” Justice BV Nagarathna said.
“That is a matter we have to be concerned about. Also, what is the use then? You are giving a reservation. The parents have studied, they are in good jobs, they are getting good income, and the children want reservation again. See, they should get out of reservation,” Justice Nagarathna said.
The bench of Justices Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observations while hearing a petition against a Karnataka High Court judgment upholding exclusion of the petitioner, whose parents are both state government employees, from reservation on the ground of creamy layer.
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