'If both parents are IAS officers, why reservation?' SC on quota for creamy layer

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• Supreme Court of India Poll Should children of economically advanced families within backward classes continue to receive reservation benefits?
• Yes, they should receive benefits No, they should not receive benefits NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the continued grant of reservation benefits to children of economically and educationally advanced families within backward classes, observing that social mobility comes with empowerment and that reservation cannot continue indefinitely for such sections.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing a plea challenging a Karnataka high court judgment that upheld the exclusion of a petitioner from reservation benefits because both his parents are state government employees."If both parents are IAS officers, why should they have reservations?
• With educational and economic empowerment, there is social mobility," the bench observed, according to PTI."So then again, to seek reservation for the children, we will never get out of it," the court added...