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Protest was against a court order telling the govt to identify a wealthy group among them who benefit from the quota policyPatriarch Pizzaballa: ‘Peace is difficult today, ceasefire is urgent’affirmative action policy that gives job and education quotas to the country's marginalized people following a top court order on August 1.
We agree with NACDAOR’s demand for a new law to keep the reservation quota intact following the court order, added Bishop Nayak. “Calling for creating a creamy layer is not in tune with the spirit and principles of the constitution,” the prelate told UCA News on Aug. 21. “The state must evolve a policy to identify the creamy layer among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and exclude them from the fold of affirmative action," the judges told the government in the order.Under the Hindu caste system, they are treated as inferior and, hence, destined to toil for the other three upper castes in the hierarchy.
There are many pro-Hindu groups and right-wing intellectuals in the country who oppose the seven-decade-old affirmative action.Father Nicholas Barla, who recently resigned as secretary of the CBCI Office of Scheduled Tribes, termed the Supreme Court order inappropriate.
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