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The Central Government deferred Karnataka's request to include its Reservation Act, 2022 in the Ninth Schedule.
The Act provides 56% reservation for SCs, STs, and OBCs in the state.
The proposal was deferred because the Act is currently sub-judice in the Karnataka High Court.
Added by the First Amendment Act, 1951 to protect laws from judicial review on grounds of violating Fundamental Rights. However, post-I.R. Coelho judgment (2007), laws added after April 1973 are subject to basic structure review.
Set the 50% ceiling on overall reservations, which the Karnataka Act exceeds.
GS Paper 2 > Polity > Constitutional Provisions
General Awareness > Indian Polity
Consider the following statements: 1. The Parliament of India can place a particular law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India. 2. The validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule cannot be examined by any court and no judgement can be made on it. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 1 only
The Ninth Schedule was introduced in the Constitution of India during the prime ministership of
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
A schedule in the Indian Constitution protecting specific laws from judicial review, though subject to the basic structure doctrine since 2007.
Under judicial consideration and therefore prohibited from public discussion elsewhere.