Palampur, Oct. 15 -- Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and ex union Minister Shanta Kumar has called upon the Central government to frame rules to ensure that reservation benefits reach the poorest sections of Scheduled Castes (SCs), rather than being repeatedly availed of by affluent families.
In a statement here on Thurssday, he said that despite several decades of reservation and other facilities, many SC families continued to live in extreme poverty, while influential and well-off sections were benefiting disproportionately.
Referring to a recent case in which the son of two IAS officers belonging to an SC community was granted reservation benefits despite the presence of several poor families of the same community in the village...