Periodic review of reservations needed, says former SC judge
The Hindu
Former Supreme Court judge discusses reservations, calls for periodic review and gradual reduction until elimination in lecture at Kochi.
Former judge of the Supreme Court Rohinton Fali Nariman said here on Saturday (December 7) that “what our founding fathers envisaged through reservations was absolutely correct and the felt need of the day.”
“However, the policy has not worked as envisaged, and it will be good to subject it to periodic review to see at the ground level if it is working so that the reservations alleviate what they are meant to alleviate. There can also be a phased manner through which the percentage of reservations gradually shrinks until it finally disappears,” he said.
He was delivering the 10th Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer Memorial Lecture in Kochi. The lecture was organised by the Sarada Krishna Satgamaya Foundation for Law and Justice on the topic ‘Economic criterion and sub-classification of Scheduled Castes: Has reservation eclipsed merit altogether?
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