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While the purpose of reservations is to help communities overcome generational and systemic hurdles, the bench correctly has said that any sub-classification will require a set of criteria.
Allowing the states to select only some castes from the list of the reserved categories for the full quota advantages, it said, would lead to a “dangerous trend in popular appeasement” | Latest News India
A Congress govt headed by Giani Zail Singh set aside 50% of the SC quota for Valmikis and Mazhabi Sikhs in 1975; AAP govt that is in power now has argued in SC that "it is no longer about advantaged, disadvantaged but about disadvantaged, more disadvantaged"
The Centre backed the idea of earmarking most backward categories within SC/STs to enable the states to frame appropriate policies on subclassification | Latest News India
In a hearing of the Punjab reservation case, a seven-judge Supreme Court bench consisting of the chief justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud remarked that those falling under the backward class and having gained benefits from the reservation shall make way for people from the extremely backward classes and retract themselves from the reserved categories.