Tread cautiously on Reservation

•-The Government underscored the urgency to re-adjust the focus of quota policies towards deserving population betraying commonly held belief that strong tribes/groups have cornered the affirmatives action benefit. Committee Report 2008 and Committee Report 2010 had stated that the Chakhesangs are now Socio-economically and educationally more advance than the average Nagas. But what is harder to pinpoint is how much improvement can be credited to reservations and how much might have occurred without reservation as a result of general government-policies.
Comprehensive survey should also be conducted whether the injection of crores of rupees is kitted out to the grass roots. We have to create mood to find out. There has been a warm climatic change in the educational status of the young people. Growth of
Colleges, growth of university faculties have produced graduates chasing fewer and fewer jobs which in turn has also forced young people to join unwanted related elements for survival.
In 1992 Supreme Court, in Mandal Judgment, reiterated that Reservation percentage cannot exceed 50% and “creamy layers” be excluded from Reservation benefits. As such, we should tread cautiously on the subject and the reservation policy should be available to only those people who need reservation.