No need for quotas in promotions for SCs, STs: Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court has today said that states need not collect quantifiable data on backwardness of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for giving quota in job promotion to SC/ST employees.
Basically, the apex court has upheld a judgement it gave in 2006 in the famous M Nagraj case. The court opines that it's not mandatory go provide reservations in job promotions.
"The Centre had alleged that the verdict in the M Nagraj case had put unnecessary conditions in granting quota benefits to the SC and ST employees and sought its reconsideration by a larger bench," PTI says.
In the past, the government has argued that the SC and ST communities have been facing caste-based discrimination for long and the stigma of caste is attached to them despite the fact that some of them have come up.
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