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| United Students welcome SC order staying 27% reservation | | | Jammu, Mar 29
United students a Delhi based student union has hailed apex Court order staying the government decision of 27% reservations in centrally funded universities.
In a press statement youth activist Aditya Raj Kaul said that by pointing out that the Government has failed to provide any authentic or reliable data to justify its policy of reservation, court has vindicated the stand of the student groups stand that the Mandal Commission report be categorically rejected.
United Students have also demanded that the an empirical study should be conducted into the effectiveness of the reservation policy over the past 50 years. They said that without such study expansion of the reservation can not be justified. "We need to know if the policy has actually been beneficial and is properly being targeted", Dhruv Suri, a law student at IP University.
They said that the stay order on its decision by the apex court indicates that the government has lost credibility. In essence the SC has attacked the very idea of OBC reservations although obliquely", added the release.
Accusing government of playing vote bank politics and trying to divide the nation on caste lines, the statement described the Supreme Court order as a step in the right direction.
The release said that United Students is not against affirmative action and believes that a holistic approach, taking into account other factors apart from caste, needs to be adopted to combat the inequality in society.
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