Good decision by the Supreme Court

The Prime Minister was recently complaining that the judiciary is impinging upon the rights of the executive by continuously stepping in the way of populist policies. I think right now the Supreme Court is the only institution that provides some respite to the beleaguered citizens that become constant targets of venal political machinations.

Take for instance the quota mania of the present government. Left to its own devices it will quotafy even the sauchalayas of the country. It’ll also tell you how much you can pee and how much air you can breath in and how much is to be left for the OBC.

Today I read that the government is contemplating making it mandatory for the private companies to provide job quotas. Just imagine how you’ll feel if you find out that your project manager became a project manager (I think it is highly unlikely to happen) due to his or her caste and not due to his or her qualifications, experience and performance.

The Supreme Court today rightly rejected the Center’s plea to vacate the stay on the implementation of 27 per cent OBC reservation in elite central educational institutions. I don’t know how the these things work but I hope now the IIM’s can go ahead with their admission process without this quota system being implemented for the current year (or for that matter, any year).