The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a plea filed by Dr Subhash Vijayran seeking directions to the Centre to fix time limits for expiry of caste-based reservation in education. A bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat dismissed the plea as withdrawn.
The plea said, “Since the 1950s, SCs/STs are being provided reservations in education. The OBCs followed suit in 2008. Compared to the pre-reservation era when people strived to gain the forward tag; today, people fight and spill blood for the backward tag. Now, we have well-off doctors, lawyers, engineers, who flaunt their backward tag to gain admissions in PG courses via reservations. Even the Institutions of National Importance (INIs) like AIIMS, NLUs, IITs, IIMs, etc. are not spared. Every year 50% of their very scarce seats are sacrificed on the altar of reservations. For how long will this continue?”