Supreme Court reserves judgment on issue of grant of reservation in promotion to SCs/STs in government jobs
3 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court reserves judgment on issue of grant of reservation in promotion to SCs/STs in government jobs

Firstpost  

The Centre had earlier told the bench that it is a fact of life that even after 75 years, those belonging to scheduled castes and and scheduled tribes, have not been brought to the same level of merit as the forward classes New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its judgement on the issue of the grant of reservation in promotion to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Nageswara Rao heard all the parties in the matter including Attorney General K K Venugopal, Additional Solicitor General Balbir Singh, and other senior lawyers appearing for various states. The Centre had earlier told the bench also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai that it is a fact of life that even after around 75 years those belonging to SCs and STs have not been brought to the same level of merit as the forward classes. The bench had earlier said it would not reopen its decision on the issue of the grant of reservation in promotion to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and said it was for the states to decide how they are going to implement the same.

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“Antithetical To Concept Of Equality": J&K High Court Halts Promotions Without Consideration Of Candidates' SC/ST Reservation
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

“Antithetical To Concept Of Equality": J&K High Court Halts Promotions Without Consideration Of Candidates' SC/ST Reservation

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has restrained the government from making any promotions unless candidates from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories entitled to reservation are duly considered. Delivering a major relief to reserved category employees who have long been denied their rightful promotions due to a controversial government circular Justice M.A Chowdhary observed, “The respondents …

Benefit Of Reservation In Promotion Available To All Under Article 16(4A), J&K Citizens Cannot Be Treated Differently: High Court
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Benefit Of Reservation In Promotion Available To All Under Article 16(4A), J&K Citizens Cannot Be Treated Differently: High Court

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has expressed its strong disapproval of the circular issued by the General Administration Department directing all the Administrative Secretaries to keep vacant the slots meant for reserved category employees. The Court held that denying the benefit of reservation in promotion to scheduled castes and keeping their seats vacant would lead to treating citizens of …

SC sub-quota for edu, jobs in Telangana from April
1 month, 3 weeks ago

SC sub-quota for edu, jobs in Telangana from April

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:The state government is set to implement reservations in education and employment for Scheduled Castes communities as per the new SC sub-categorisation from April, according to official sources. This move follows a landmark Supreme Court judgment in August 2024, which permitted states to sub-categorise SCs within the 15 per cent reservation quota for education and employment. In response, Chief Minister …

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024: Service Law
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024: Service Law

Live Law  

SERVICE LAWS - SUPREME COURT ANNUAL DIGEST 2024 Administration Constitution of India - Article 16, 16 and 335 - Efficiency of Administration - Article 335 does not limit sub-classification; rather, it reinforces the importance of inclusion and equality in public services in line with Article 16. Indian Council of Agricultural Research v. Rajinder Singh, 2024 LiveLaw 611 : AIR 2024 …

Promotion As District Judges Under Merit-cum-Seniority Quota Can't Be Denied To Suitable Candidates Based On Merit List : Supreme Court
2 months, 1 week ago

Promotion As District Judges Under Merit-cum-Seniority Quota Can't Be Denied To Suitable Candidates Based On Merit List : Supreme Court

Live Law  

Granting relief to judicial officers of the Jharkhand Judiciary who were denied promotion despite meeting the minimum marks required in the suitability test for the merit-cum-seniority quota, the Supreme Court today reiterated that the merit-cum-seniority quota is not a competitive process. The appellants cited the recent decision passed in the case of Ravikumar Dhansukhlal Mehta v. High Court of Gujarat …

Supreme Court says ball is in the courts of government, legislature on ‘creamy layer’ for SC/STs
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court says ball is in the courts of government, legislature on ‘creamy layer’ for SC/STs

The Hindu  

Supreme Court judge, Justice B.R. Gavai, on Thursday said the ball was in the courts of the legislature and the government to take a call on whether the ‘creamy layer’ of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’ beneficiaries of reservation in education and public service must be excluded from quota benefits. The court was hearing a writ petition filed by Santosh …

Supreme Court Refuses To Give Scheduled Caste Benefit To 'Tanti' Caste Person In Bihar
3 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Refuses To Give Scheduled Caste Benefit To 'Tanti' Caste Person In Bihar

Live Law  

The Supreme Court recently refused to extend the benefit of Scheduled Caste reservation to a Central Government employee who belonged to the 'Tanti' caste, which is notified as Other Backward Classes category in Bihar. In 2015, the Bihar Government removed 'Tanti' caste from the OBC list and merged it with 'Pan/Swasi' caste in the Scheduled Castes category. Meanwhile, in July …

EWS Reservation Turns Constitution On Its Head, Supreme Court Erred By Upholding It : Justice Nariman
3 months, 2 weeks ago

EWS Reservation Turns Constitution On Its Head, Supreme Court Erred By Upholding It : Justice Nariman

Live Law  

While delivering the Justice VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Lecture, former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman critiqued today the EWS judgment for upholding the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which excluded from the ambit of economic reservation people belonging to Schedules Castes/Scheduled Tribes/Backward Classes.The former judge commented that the EWS judgment was wrong. Remarking that the decision was in the teeth …

Inside Telangana Caste Survey: Wary Respondents, Tired Surveyors & Privacy Fears
4 months, 1 week ago

Inside Telangana Caste Survey: Wary Respondents, Tired Surveyors & Privacy Fears

The Quint  

However, the survey did not take off in the last eight months due to the Lok Sabha elections and court cases. On a Public Interest Litigation filed by R Krishnaiah, former Rajya Sabha member and leading figure of struggles by BC organisations since the Mandal Commission imbroglio, the Telangana High Court directed the state government to constitute a dedicated commission …

Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation

Live Law  

A seven judge bench of the Supreme Court in State of Punjab & Ors. Justice Gavai, in his concurring opinion, while noting this fact observes, “If the State…finds that certain categories within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are not adequately represented and only the people belonging to few of the categories are enjoying the entire benefit reserved for Scheduled …

Quotas in quota | Panacea or pandora's box?
7 months, 1 week ago

Quotas in quota | Panacea or pandora's box?

India Today  

On August 1, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment redefining the framework of affirmative action. Chandrachud allowed states to create subclassifications within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The aim is to ensure a more equitable distribution of reservation benefits among the most backward communities within these categories. It has in effect now allowed states to further demarcate reservations …

Fate of Schedule Tribes sub-quota in Mizoram uncertain after Supreme Court ruling
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Fate of Schedule Tribes sub-quota in Mizoram uncertain after Supreme Court ruling

The Hindu  

The fate of the Scheduled Tribes quota sub-classification in Mizoram plunged into uncertainty within days of the Supreme Court of India in a ruling permitted States to sub-categorise Scheduled Castes and STs. Mizoram’s Education Minister Vanlalthlana said the government’s work on the sub-classification of STs would now have to be re-strategised after considering the Supreme Court’s ruling and its implications, …

7-judge SC bench upholds quota within SC/ST quota saying sub-classification is permissible
7 months, 2 weeks ago

7-judge SC bench upholds quota within SC/ST quota saying sub-classification is permissible

Op India  

In a major ruling on the 1st of August, a 7-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court ruled by a 6:1 majority that sub-classification of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes is admissible in order to give distinct quotas for more backwards within the SC/ST categories. The seven-judge Constitution bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices BR Gavai, Vikram Nath, Bela M …

Explained: Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and the Supreme Court
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Explained: Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and the Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

On August 1, a seven-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court with a majority of 6:1 held that sub-classification of Scheduled Castes for the purpose of reservation was constitutional. While hearing the appeal in 2014, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court noted that Chinniah needs to be revisited in light of Article 338 and the law laid in Indra …

Sub- classification within SC/STs: BSP disagrees with top court verdict
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sub- classification within SC/STs: BSP disagrees with top court verdict

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday termed the Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes an emergency situation for Dalits and tribal communities. The central government should put reservation for SCs and STS in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution, Mayawati said. “The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been …

Mayawati opposes Supreme Court ruling on sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Mayawati opposes Supreme Court ruling on sub-classification of Scheduled Castes

India Today  

Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday expressed her party's opposition to the recent Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes. "The sub-classification of people within SCs and Scheduled Tribes has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all," Mayawati said during a press conference in Lucknow. In a landmark verdict, …

BJP SC Morcha hails Supreme Court judgement, calls it BJP’s victory
7 months, 3 weeks ago

BJP SC Morcha hails Supreme Court judgement, calls it BJP’s victory

The Hindu  

The BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha State Vice-President Ambaraya Ashtagi has hailed the Supreme Court judgment permitting sub-classification of Scheduled Castes reservations and claimed that it was a victory for the previous BJP government. Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Friday, Mr. Ashtagi said that the landmark judgement allows sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes to grant separate quotas for more backward …

Reservation redistribution
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Reservation redistribution

Hindustan Times  

The gains of reservation — despite its goal of driving equity — have flowed unequally. Relative social privilege and political clout have led to a few groups enjoying almost all the benefits of reservations while others languish in backwardness that is largely unchanged since Independence. To illustrate, the Jatavs in Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars in Maharashtra have long been …

Supreme Court judgment backs validity of Tamil Nadu’s Arunthathiyar quota law
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court judgment backs validity of Tamil Nadu’s Arunthathiyar quota law

The Hindu  

A majority judgment of the Supreme Court on Thursday has backed the constitutional validity of a Tamil Nadu law that offered preferential treatment among the Scheduled Castes to socially and educationally backward Arunthathiyars. The Tamil Nadu State Legislature had enacted the Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars Reservation Act, 2009, to provide the Arunthathiyars reservation in appointments or posts in State services on …

States can sub-classify SCs for quotas: top court
7 months, 3 weeks ago

States can sub-classify SCs for quotas: top court

The Hindu  

In a 6:1 majority judgment on Thursday, a seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Four of the seven judges on the Bench separately said the government should extend the “creamy layer principle” to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as in the case of the Other Backward Classes category. On Thursday, Chief Justice …

Why has Supreme Court re-examined subclassification in SC-ST quotas? Explained
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Why has Supreme Court re-examined subclassification in SC-ST quotas? Explained

India TV News  

With a decisive majority of 6:1, the seven-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Thursday ruled in favour of sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The latest decision overruled the 2004 judgment in the EV Chinnaiah vs State of Andhra Pradesh case, which held that there can be no sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled …

SC/ST Reservation: Supreme Court Rules Separate Quotas Permissible for More Backward Castes
7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC/ST Reservation: Supreme Court Rules Separate Quotas Permissible for More Backward Castes

ABP News  

On Thursday, August 1, the Supreme Court delivered a significant ruling concerning Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Chandrachud, decided by a 6:1 majority that separate quotas within the SC/ST categories can be allocated to more backward sub-groups. The Court's ruling emphasizes that certain castes within SC/ST categories are significantly more backward and require targeted empowerment. The Court's judgment highlighted the …

Creamy layer among SCs, STs must be excluded from quota benefits: Supreme Court
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Creamy layer among SCs, STs must be excluded from quota benefits: Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that states must identify the ‘creamy layer’ within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and take them out of reservation. “State must evolve a policy to identify creamy layer among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes category and exclude them from the fold of affirmative action,” Justice Gavai wrote in his judgment, according to …

SC Allows Sub-Divisions in SC, ST for Quota
7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC Allows Sub-Divisions in SC, ST for Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: In a landmark verdict, a seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday okayed sub-classification within the Scheduled Caste and Schedule Tribe communities to provide reservations in jobs and education for the more marginalised sub-sets. Thus, the state in exercise of the power under Articles 15 and 16 can further classify the SCs if there is a …

Sub-classification within SCs, STs permissible, says Supreme Court
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sub-classification within SCs, STs permissible, says Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a majority that sub-classification within the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes is permissible. It declared that SCs cannot be considered homogenous classes and that it would be permissible for the Centre and states to earmark most backward classes within the reserved category of SC/STs to enable them frame appropriate policies on sub-classification and …

SC allows states to sub-classify SCs, STs for quotas within reserved categories
7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC allows states to sub-classify SCs, STs for quotas within reserved categories

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: In a majority verdict on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to allocate quotas within the reserved category, aiming to uplift more underprivileged groups. A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud held a 6:1 majority that the further sub-classification of SCs and STs by …

SC declines to grant interim stay of Patna HC decision quashing 65% quota in Bihar
7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC declines to grant interim stay of Patna HC decision quashing 65% quota in Bihar

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on July 29 refused to order interim stay of a Patna High Court decision quashing reservation up to 65% for Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in public employment and institutions. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Shyam Divan, for Bihar, urged the court to stay the High Court decision which had …

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education
8 months, 1 week ago

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR : Former Union minister Srikant Jena and ex-Congress MP Anant Prasad Sethi on Sunday said the government should revise the reservation quota for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in higher education in Odisha from 2024-25 academic year. In a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, the Congress leaders said in 2015, the state government had announced that reservation …

Supreme Court Weekly Digest With Subject /Statute Wise Index [April 1 to 13]
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court Weekly Digest With Subject /Statute Wise Index [April 1 to 13]

Live Law  

SUPREME COURT WEEKLY DIGEST APRIL 2024 PART 1 Citations 2024 LiveLaw 269 to 2024 LiveLaw 290 Abuse of Process of Law Abuse of process of law – Collusion between parties in tender process – Held, respondent no. Pankaj Singh v. State of Haryana, 2024 LiveLaw 274 Criminal procedure Code 1973; Section 439 and National Investigation Agency Act, 2008; Section 21 …

Degree Of Backwardness Within Scheduled Castes May Vary, Says Supreme Court; Centre Supports Subclassification Within SCs/STs [Day 2]
1 year, 1 month ago

Degree Of Backwardness Within Scheduled Castes May Vary, Says Supreme Court; Centre Supports Subclassification Within SCs/STs [Day 2]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench on Tuesday while hearing on the validity of subclassifications within SC/STs deliberated upon the notion of homogeneity of class and what Article 341 of the Constitution meant in light of communities designated as a “Scheduled Caste” Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal appearing from the petitioner's side, argued that there were two key mistakes in the decision …

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court
1 year, 1 month ago

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

A seven-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Tuesday observed that Scheduled Castes cannot be treated as a “homogenous group” for granting reservation as some may have advanced in society while other continue to remain “particularly underprivileged”. The court said the diverse groups, clubbed together in the Presidential list under Article 341 of the Constitution …

75% quota in private jobs: SC seeks Centre’s response on Haryana govt’s plea
1 year, 1 month ago

75% quota in private jobs: SC seeks Centre’s response on Haryana govt’s plea

Live Mint  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre seeking its response on a Haryana government plea against the Punjab and Haryana High Court order declaring a law providing 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to the residents of the state as “unconstitutional”. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Haryana government, submitted that the high …

Disabled staff to get quota in promotion with effect from 2016
1 year, 2 months ago

Disabled staff to get quota in promotion with effect from 2016

The Hindu  

December 29, 2023 12:48 am | Updated 02:42 am IST - New Delhi The Union government on Thursday issued an order paving the way for Persons with Disabilities to be considered for reservation in promotions up to the lowest rung of Group A posts in the Central government, with effect from June 30, 2016. The Office Memorandum said, “No financial …

OBC reservation in temporary posts: Modi govt to SC
1 year, 5 months ago

OBC reservation in temporary posts: Modi govt to SC

Op India  

The Central Government has notified the Supreme Court that reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes will be provided in temporary postings lasting 45 days or beyond. The union government represented by Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj said this to the bench comprising justices Sanjv Khanna and SVN Bhatti in response to a writ petition seeking SC/ST/OBC …

SC/ST/OBC Reservation Will Be Given In Temporary Appointments Which Last For 45 Days Or More : Centre Tells Supreme Court
1 year, 5 months ago

SC/ST/OBC Reservation Will Be Given In Temporary Appointments Which Last For 45 Days Or More : Centre Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes will be given in temporary appointments which are to last for 45 days or more. Responding to a writ petition which sought for SC/ST/OBC reservation in temporary jobs, the Central Government informed the Court about Office Memorandum no. Referring to previous …

Top Court To Examine SC/ST Reservation
1 year, 6 months ago

Top Court To Examine SC/ST Reservation

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for November 21 to address pleas challenging the constitutionality of extending reservation benefits to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies beyond the originally envisioned 10-year period in the Constitution. Chandrachud, will assess the validity of the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, which extended SC and ST quotas …

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: July 10 To 16 July 2023
1 year, 8 months ago

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: July 10 To 16 July 2023

Live Law  

Gurugram Prime Plot 'Sold' Through Fake GPA: Supreme Court Forms SIT To Probe Land Scam; Questions Role Of Sub-Registrar's Office Case title: Pratibha Manchanda And Anr. Supreme Court Issues Notice To CBI, ED On Manish Sisodia's Bail Pleas In Delhi Liquor Policy Scam Case Case title: Manish Sisodia v. Central Bureau of Investigation Citation: Special Leave Petition No. Supreme Court …

SC Dismisses Pleas Seeking Review of Its Verdict Upholding 10 Per Cent Reservation to EWS
1 year, 10 months ago

SC Dismisses Pleas Seeking Review of Its Verdict Upholding 10 Per Cent Reservation to EWS

News 18  

The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its verdict upholding the 10 per cent reservation introduced in 2019 for the economically weaker sections in educational institutions and government jobs that excluded the poor among the SC/ST/OBC categories. The review petitions are, therefore, dismissed,” the bench also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M …

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up (24th April to 30th April 2023)
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up (24th April to 30th April 2023)

Live Law  

With another week gone at the Supreme Court of India, Live Law is back with its Supreme Court Weekly Digest to keep our readers up to date with the latest legal developments in the Apex court of the country.Judgments/OrdersS.17 Registration Act | High Court Cannot Exercise Writ Jurisdiction To Alter Or Amend Registered Lease Deed: Supreme Court The Supreme Court …

SC reservation: 2% job quota for Vimukat Jatis, Bazigars to prevail in Punjab, says HC
1 year, 11 months ago

SC reservation: 2% job quota for Vimukat Jatis, Bazigars to prevail in Punjab, says HC

Hindustan Times  

In a significant judgment, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that even if the state has taken contradictory stands on several occasions, its 2001 instructions on 2% job quota to the candidates of Vimukat Jatis and Bazigars in Scheduled Castes category reservation would prevail. Deciding a clutch of petitions pending since 2013, the high court bench of justice …

SC/ST representation at Secretary, Joint Secy level in Centre stands at 4% and 4.9%: Govt data in Rajya Sabha
2 years, 3 months ago

SC/ST representation at Secretary, Joint Secy level in Centre stands at 4% and 4.9%: Govt data in Rajya Sabha

The Hindu  

The representation of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe officers at the rank of joint secretary and secretary in the Government of India stands at 4% and 4.9% respectively, the department of personnel and training informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Responding to a question by Ram Nath Thakur of the Janta Dal, Minister of State Jitendra Singh said in a …

Supreme Court judgment on EWS quota provides impetus for States looking to breach quota ceiling
2 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court judgment on EWS quota provides impetus for States looking to breach quota ceiling

The Hindu  

With the Jharkhand Assembly passing a Bill this week to raise the total reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in State government posts to up to 77% in the backdrop of a Supreme Court Constitution Bench’s majority ruling in the Economically Weaker Section case that the 50% cap on reservation was not sacrosanct, this has paved …

Supreme Court upholds reservation for economically weaker sections
2 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court upholds reservation for economically weaker sections

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday by a majority of 3-2 upheld the Constitution’s 103rd Amendment providing for a 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections of the forward classes describing it as an affirmative action, not violative of the basic structure of the Constitution, and saying it did not offend the equality code by excluding SC/STs and …

To ‘Caste’ a Wide Net: Karnataka Will Increase SC, ST Quota at the Earliest, Says CM Bommai
2 years, 5 months ago

To ‘Caste’ a Wide Net: Karnataka Will Increase SC, ST Quota at the Earliest, Says CM Bommai

News 18  

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that his government was “committed to hiking reservations for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes ” and will issue an order on its implementation at the earliest. Meanwhile, the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party core committee also passed a resolution seeking an increase in reservation for SC/STs at the executive meeting held in …

Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest (Jan - Jun) Administrative, Labour & Service Laws
2 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest (Jan - Jun) Administrative, Labour & Service Laws

Live Law  

Administrative Law - Appeal challenging adverse Remarks made in the Allahabad HC judgment regarding a Statutory authority - Allowed - Even if the High Court found that the impugned actions of the authorities concerned, particularly of the appellant, had not been strictly in conformity with law or were irregular or were illegal or even perverse, such findings, by themselves, were …

Reservation Must Reach Every Deserving Candidate, Cannot Be Eaten Away By Meritorious Reserved Category Candidate: J&K&L High Court
2 years, 6 months ago

Reservation Must Reach Every Deserving Candidate, Cannot Be Eaten Away By Meritorious Reserved Category Candidate: J&K&L High Court

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday observed that the benefit of reservation must reach to the deserving candidate in the category and State is under obligation that this benefit is not eaten away by a candidate of reserved category, who has equal or better merit than that of candidate last admitted in the professional course in …

SC Reservation For Converted Dalits : Supreme Court Asks Centre To Explain Its Stand Within 3 Weeks
2 years, 6 months ago

SC Reservation For Converted Dalits : Supreme Court Asks Centre To Explain Its Stand Within 3 Weeks

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, asked Centre to provide its current stand on the issue of extending the benefit of reservation available to the Scheduled Caste community to Dalits who have converted to other faiths. A 2007 report submitted by National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, under the chairpersonship of retired CJI Ranganath Misra had found merit for granting …

Reservation in public employment
2 years, 9 months ago

Reservation in public employment

The Hindu  

The jurisprudence of reservation relies on the symbiotic coexistence of constitutionally guaranteed equality of opportunity in public employment under Article 16 of the Constitution of India and classifications thereunder various clauses of the same article, especially Article 16 and Article 16, which are in the nature of facilitating provisions, vesting a discretion on the government to consider providing reservations for …

Decided To Give Reservation In Promotion To SC/ST Employees Cadre-Wise : Bihar Govt Tells Supreme Court
2 years, 11 months ago

Decided To Give Reservation In Promotion To SC/ST Employees Cadre-Wise : Bihar Govt Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

The State of Bihar on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it has decided now to give reservation in promotios to government employees belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on the basis of "cadre". The State had sought to withdraw the civil appeal on the ground that pursuant to the Top Court's ruling that cadre would be considered as …

Appointments To Reserved Vacancies Meant Only For Members Of Reserved Community Alone: Supreme Court
3 years ago

Appointments To Reserved Vacancies Meant Only For Members Of Reserved Community Alone: Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court observed that the appointments to the reserved vacancies are meant only for those who are deserving by being members of reserved community alone.If any person other than a member of the reserved community is appointed, it would clearly constitute an infringement of the rights of the genuinely deserving members of the said community, the bench comprising Justices …

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