One IPS officer and one IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh have separately taken a principled stand the reservation policy that does not discriminate between the privileged and the unprivileged people in the categories entitled to reservation.
IPS officer of the 2009 batch Amit Singh, who's posted as Ratlam superintendent of police, has stirred a hornet's nest by speaking in public how a candidate from a privileged background got IAS as a reserved category candidate. He said he had to settle for IPS though he got 144th rank while the candidate he referred to got 600th rank. He pointed out that both parents of the particular candidate are IAS and the candidate himself passed out from a prestigious institute (IIM, Ahmedabad).
This definitely called for redefining creamy layer to save the instrument of reservation from becoming a vehicle - which it has become - to deny others their dues, he said.
"Someone should come forward and give up the facility to enable those who actually deserve to get it. It should be extended to those who still need it to come to the mainstream, not those who are already there,'' he said. The 38-year-old officer admitted that a senior officer from Bhopal sought his oral explanation. "If I am asked to explain in writing I will do so,'' the officer said.
At a function, he also said that those people who were taking benefit of reservation in admissions and jobs should be marked.
Singh's bold and honest comments have followed hard on the heels of a serving general category IAS officer's decision to back an organization that is against reservation in promotion. IAS officer Rajiv Sharma become a member of Samanya Picchda Evam Alpasankhyak Adhikari Karmachari Sangh on October 8.
The 2004 batch IAS officer said he is personally not a victim of reservation in promotion because it does not extend to all-India services but there are many in Madhya Pradesh who have complained of being forced to work under people who were junior to them.
"There are many government policies that we implement. My only disagreement is on this issue,'' he said when asked if his position contradicts the government's stand on the reservation in promotion.
It may be recalled that the MP High Court had ruled against the policy of reservation in promotion. However, the state government has moved the Supreme Court where the matter is pending for months.
MP civil servants decry reservation policy
By IndianMandarins - 2017-10-10 09:40:18
One IPS officer and one IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh have separately taken a principled stand the reservation policy that does not discriminate between the privileged and the unprivileged people in the categories entitled to reservation.
IPS officer of the 2009 batch Amit Singh, who's posted as Ratlam superintendent of police, has stirred a hornet's nest by speaking in public how a candidate from a privileged background got IAS as a reserved category candidate. He said he had to settle for IPS though he got 144th rank while the candidate he referred to got 600th rank. He pointed out that both parents of the particular candidate are IAS and the candidate himself passed out from a prestigious institute (IIM, Ahmedabad).
This definitely called for redefining creamy layer to save the instrument of reservation from becoming a vehicle - which it has become - to deny others their dues, he said.
"Someone should come forward and give up the facility to enable those who actually deserve to get it. It should be extended to those who still need it to come to the mainstream, not those who are already there,'' he said. The 38-year-old officer admitted that a senior officer from Bhopal sought his oral explanation. "If I am asked to explain in writing I will do so,'' the officer said.
At a function, he also said that those people who were taking benefit of reservation in admissions and jobs should be marked.
Singh's bold and honest comments have followed hard on the heels of a serving general category IAS officer's decision to back an organization that is against reservation in promotion. IAS officer Rajiv Sharma become a member of Samanya Picchda Evam Alpasankhyak Adhikari Karmachari Sangh on October 8.
The 2004 batch IAS officer said he is personally not a victim of reservation in promotion because it does not extend to all-India services but there are many in Madhya Pradesh who have complained of being forced to work under people who were junior to them.
"There are many government policies that we implement. My only disagreement is on this issue,'' he said when asked if his position contradicts the government's stand on the reservation in promotion.
It may be recalled that the MP High Court had ruled against the policy of reservation in promotion. However, the state government has moved the Supreme Court where the matter is pending for months.
