criterion” order
New Delhi: The Central Government’s new job reservation policy with an “economic criterion” is being challenged in the Supreme Court by the Sir Narayana Dharma “Periplanar Yogam, Kerala. The SNDP general secretary, Pratap Singh, said here that M.H. Baig, former Advocate-General of Jammu and Kashmir and senior advocate of the Supreme Court, will appear for them. The job reservation for “economically backward in advanced communities” would only increase the share of such classes of people in the bureaucracy. “The poor in the forward communities need financial assistance and not job reservation,” he said. Pratap Singh termed the new job reservation policy as a retrograde step defeating. the very purpose of reservation for the socially and educationally backward as enshrined in the Constitution (Statesman Nov. 11)
