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DMK moves Madras high court against 10 percent reservation
- | Saturday | 19th January, 2019
However, economic criteria have been used as a filter to exclude the creamy layer, persons belong to the backward classes but who are economically advanced. Hence, application of economic criteria solely is not contemplated as an exception to the rule of equality, and consequently to provide reservation solely on economic criteria offends the basic structure of the Constitution." However, the recent amendments enable reservation to go up to 79% and the same are unconstitutional. Hence, the reservation cannot be beyond 69% in the state. CHENNAI: Noting that reservations are not poverty alleviation programmes, the DMK has approached Madras high court challenging the legality of the Centre’s 10% reservation for poor among the forward community groups.It said reservation is a social justice tool meant to uplift communities which have not had access to education or employment for centuries, the petition filed by DMK’s organising secretary RS Bharathi said: "Essentially, the exception to the equality clause is only available to those communities which were ostracised for centuries in matters of education and employment.
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