NEW DELHI: The Centre today ruled out in the Supreme Court the possibility of excluding the creamy layer from among Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes from getting quota benefits, saying the entire community is “backward”.
The top court was hearing a PIL filed by NGO Samta Andolan Samiti seeking exclusion of affluent SC and STs members from availing the quota benefits on the ground that they did not need reservation and it led to deprivation of benefits to those needy among these communities.
“There cannot be any creamy layer concept for SCs and STs,” Additional Solicitor General P S Narasimha, appearing for the Centre, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra. (AGENCIES)
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