Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 15: General Category People’s Forum (GCPF) today stressed for ending caste based reservation, terming it illegal and inhuman.
Addressing a meeting of the Central Working Committee of the Forum, its chairman, Raj Kumar Banathia, said that educationally and economically well developed ST/SC families should be excluded from the quota of reservations.
He said that Governments snatch out of the poor’s and middle class’s pockets to provide privileges and concessions to rich through caste based reservation, which is illegal and inhuman. This practice should be undone, he asserted.
Ram Pal Seth, president of Aarakshan Virodhi Manch, said that the provisions of reservation should be reviewed and it should be provided on economic basis to educationally and economically backward families of all caste and religions.
Yash Sharma, president, GCPF, demanded immediate steps to remove the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the poor, needy and deserving people of so called Sawaran castes since 1955. He demanded removal of cap on annual income of Rs 1 lakh and extended it upto Rs 3 lakh. He also emphasized to increase 6% quota of reservation upto 14 %.
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