CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Supreme Court upheld a 2018 Karnataka Reservation Act on the ground that the State had furnished sufficient data to demonstrate both that SC/STs are inadequately represented and that the policy would not adversely affect efficiency.

Detailed explanation-2: -The court held that the government cannot introduce quota in promotion for its SC/ST employees unless it proves that the particular community was backward, inadequately represented and providing reservation in promotion would not affect the overall efficiency of public administration.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2006, the Court delivered its judgment in M. Nagaraj v. Union of India. In it, the Court validated Parliament’s decision to extend reservations for SC/STs to include promotions (reservation in promotion).

Detailed explanation-4: -NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a member of the Scheduled Caste community cannot weaponise the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act by bringing under the purview of this stringent penal law a purely civil dispute between him and a member of the upper caste community.

Detailed explanation-5: -Article 16 (4A): Provides that the State can make any provision for reservation in matters of promotion in favour of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes if they are not adequately represented in the services under the State.