Why in news?
Recent Supreme Court judgment, that there is no fundamental right to claim reservation in promotions, has caused some political alarm.
The state is not bound to provide reservations, but if it does so, it must be in favour of sections that are backward and inadequately represented in the services based on quantifiable data.
The terms “proportionate equality” and “substantive equality” have been used to show that the equality norm acquires completion only when the marginalised are given a legal leg-up
