10-31-2006, 02:59 AM
<b>2 Dalit ministers veto creamy layer</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: Meira Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan â top dalit duo in the Manmohan Singh cabinet have opposed the extension of creamy layer to SCs/STs in the wake of a recent Supreme Court order
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Social justice minister Meira Kumar has not gone to Paswan's length but has opposed any creamy layer test for excluding better-placed SCs/STs from quota benefits. Kumar told TOI, <b>"This is the first generation of SCs/STs to benefit from reservation. They have still not reached the higher positions. They should be given a few generations to establish themselves." </b>Paswan, an independent leader positioning himself for a larger role in dalit politics, has joined the increasing clamour for a constitutional amendment.
Kumar, severely limited by the centrist leanings of Congress, which also draws support from anti-quota sections, has sought to eschew public rhetoric. Her measured stand is significant still, given that social justice ministry is the nodal ministry for SC/ST welfare and reservation policy. Kumar said an overwhelming majority among SCs/STs was in lower positions and it was not possible for their children to make a big leap to reach higher levels.
<b>In her view, SCs/STs were negligible in higher professional positions like judiciary, business and journalism. </b>Paswan, unfettered by party affiliations, said the judgment by a five-judge Bench contravenes an earlier nine-judge bench verdict in Mandal Commission case of 1992, which had said OBC creamy layer be kept out of reservation but said nothing about SC/ST creamy layer.
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They want generations to get benefit. And generation of same family.
She is second generation of so-called Dalit and her kids are also enjoying benfit. Three generation had benefit, when it will stop. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Social justice minister Meira Kumar has not gone to Paswan's length but has opposed any creamy layer test for excluding better-placed SCs/STs from quota benefits. Kumar told TOI, <b>"This is the first generation of SCs/STs to benefit from reservation. They have still not reached the higher positions. They should be given a few generations to establish themselves." </b>Paswan, an independent leader positioning himself for a larger role in dalit politics, has joined the increasing clamour for a constitutional amendment.
Kumar, severely limited by the centrist leanings of Congress, which also draws support from anti-quota sections, has sought to eschew public rhetoric. Her measured stand is significant still, given that social justice ministry is the nodal ministry for SC/ST welfare and reservation policy. Kumar said an overwhelming majority among SCs/STs was in lower positions and it was not possible for their children to make a big leap to reach higher levels.
<b>In her view, SCs/STs were negligible in higher professional positions like judiciary, business and journalism. </b>Paswan, unfettered by party affiliations, said the judgment by a five-judge Bench contravenes an earlier nine-judge bench verdict in Mandal Commission case of 1992, which had said OBC creamy layer be kept out of reservation but said nothing about SC/ST creamy layer.
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They want generations to get benefit. And generation of same family.
She is second generation of so-called Dalit and her kids are also enjoying benfit. Three generation had benefit, when it will stop. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->