HC stops J&K admin from issuing social caste certificates to Saini community members
All these communities together are entitled to four per cent reservation in government jobs and admissions to professional colleges.
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Questioning the Commission’s recommendations, they had even filed an RTI seeking details of criteria adpopted by it to recommend them in the list of socially and educationally backward classes, said Suksham Saini, president of the youth wing of the All J&K Kshatriya Saini Sabha.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court restrained the union territory’s (UT) administration from issuing social caste certificates to members of the Saini community until the government has determined its status as a socially weak and underpriviliged class.
Disposing of a petition filed by Saini Community members through Suksham Singh challenging the community’s inclusion into the list of OBCs, Justice Rajnesh Oswal also ordered that certificates already issued shall not be given effect until the community’s status is determined. He observed that the petitioner will be at liberty to approach the court afresh in the event that an adverse decision is taken by the competent authority.
Accpeting the Backward Classes Commission’s recommendations, the Jammu and Kashmir government had on October 19 last year issued an order which brought Sainis as well as over a dozen other communities under the list of “socially and educationally backward” communities, increasing their total number to 42 in the UT.
All these communities together are entitled to four per cent reservation in government jobs and admissions to professional colleges.
However, several Saini community members, calling themselves Chandravandhi Rajputs and descendents of Maharaja Shoor Saini of Mathura, grandfather of Lord Krishna, took to the streets to protest the government’s decision to include them in the list.
Questioning the Commission’s recommendations, they had even filed an RTI seeking details of criteria adpopted by it to recommend them in the list of socially and educationally backward classes, said Suksham Saini, president of the youth wing of the All J&K Kshatriya Saini Sabha.
He opposed the community’s inclusion saying that it did not fulfill the criteria laid down by the Mandal Commission in identifying social, education and economic backwardness. He pointed out that most members of the Saini community own agricultural land, have hand pumps installed to get underground water at home and have a good literacy rate.
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