'If both parents IAS officers, why reservations': SC questions quota for well-off kids

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday raised a question on why children of economically and educationally advanced families within backward classes be allowed to avail the benefit of reservation under OBC category.

"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. That is a matter we have to be concerned about. Also, what is the use then? You are giving 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," SC said.

Plea in SC: No quota cert citing creamy layer
The bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan indicated wards of well-off families should be kept out of the purview of OBC quota. It was hearing a plea of a person who was selected for appointment as an assistant engineer (electrical) in Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation in reserved category. District caste and income verification committee denied him a caste validity certificate after concluding that he fell within the creamy layer.