DW BUREAU / PATIALA A delegation of the General Categories Welfare Federation today submitted a memorandum to K P S Rana, Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha at Ropar seeking non-implementation of the 85th Amendment without complying with the Supreme Court guidelines and setting up a commission for the general categories. The delegation was led by Kuljit Singh Rattol President PSPCL/PSTCL unit and Gurdeep Tiwana Sr. Vice President. Parmod Sharma, Darshan Rana, Sri Ram Sharma, Banarasi Dass, and others accompanied them. The general category employees are protesting daily in different parts of Punjab for the last 14 days after the chief minister announced on the independence day that his government is committed to implementing the 85th amendment in the state. Rattol said that after the M Nagraj Judgement the compilation of this data has become necessary for implementing reservation in right earnest. As per guidelines, the state must fix the income limit for creamy layer SC/ST employees and then identify them. Only after that, the amendment can be implemented. V K Gupta, a spokesperson of the Federation, said that there is a great resentment among the general category employees all over Punjab. He said that the federation is not against the 85th amendment but its benefits should not be extended to rich and super-rich and instead this benefit should go to poor deserving people. Tiwana said that in Punjab the number of posts for the reserved category SC/ST employees are already filled up as their share quota and in some departments, their number is more than the share quota. All the top posts in all the departments and corporations will go to SC/ST employees and general category employees will have to forgo their chances for promotion forever. A meeting of general category employees from Ropar district was held and a large number of employees from thermal plant and other organizations was also held at Ropar and all of them demanded the setting up of a commission for the general category as promised by the Congress party at the time of the last elections. (editor@dailyworld.in)