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`Journalists can be singled out for preferential treatment'
NEW DELHI,
MARCH 16.
Holding that journalists could be singled out for preferential treatment, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of a provision in the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme which extends to all newspaper employees the scheme benefits, available only to weaker sections in other sectors.
``The employees of the newspaper industry have always been treated as a class apart,'' the apex court said, adding if the legislature embarked upon legislation for ameliorating their conditions of service, there was nothing discriminatory about it.
Ruling that Article 14 did not forbid reasonable classification, a Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Mr. Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari said that to provide social welfare legislation and to grant benefit, a beginning had to be made somewhere without embarking on similar legislation in relation to other industries.
The provision — Section 80(2) of the scheme — was challenged by Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd. on the ground that it offended the right to equality apart from imposing a heavy financial burden on newspaper establishments.
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