{"id":40451,"date":"2015-12-15T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40451"},"modified":"2015-12-16T04:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:49:43","slug":"sc-to-hear-plea-on-abolition-of-quota-in-sanskriti-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-to-hear-plea-on-abolition-of-quota-in-sanskriti-school","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear plea on abolition of quota in Sanskriti School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37805\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37805\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/4-years-jail-to-24-year-old-youth-for-stabbing-man\/jail-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"281,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?resize=281%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC to hear plea on abolition of quota in Sanskriti School\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC to hear plea on abolition of quota in Sanskriti School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear tomorrow a plea of Centre challenging the Delhi High Court decision setting aside the 60 per cent quota in the prestigious Sanskriti School here for wards of Group-A government officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let it come tomorrow,&#8221; a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and justices A K Sikri and R Banumathi said when Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought urgent listing of the petition against the order of the high court.<\/p>\n<p>While setting aside the 60 per cent quota in Sanskriti School the high court in it November 6 judgement had said that it was &#8220;akin to the erstwhile segregation of white and black students in the US and violated constitutional provisions of equality and right to education&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>60 per cent seats in the school are reserved for children of Group-A officers, 25 per cent for those from the economically weaker sections, 10 per cent for wards of rest of the society and 5 per cent for the staff of the school.<\/p>\n<p>The court in its judgement had also observed that various expert commissions have said that the current school system in India and abroad promotes and maintains a wide chasm between the advantaged and disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p>The high court had taken suo motu cognizance of the issue in 2006 after reports that the school was charging &#8220;nearly 40 per cent less fee from the children of Group-A officers of the Union Government vis-a-vis other children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear tomorrow a plea of Centre challenging the Delhi High Court decision setting aside the 60 per cent quota in the prestigious Sanskriti School here for wards of Group-A government officials. &#8220;Let it come tomorrow,&#8221; a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and justices A K Sikri and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":37805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[31987,117,80,34972,47726],"class_list":["post-40451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-sc-to-hear-plea-on-abolition-of-quota-in-sanskriti-school","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC to hear plea on abolition of quota in Sanskriti School - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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