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 …
Reaching a permanent solution to the issue of Punjab’s quota posts of engineers, officers and other staff falling vacant in Bhakra Beas management Board and subsequently filled from states of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, Punjab government has decided to create a separate cadre in different state departments which will send staff to BBMB on deputation. As per the proposal mooted …
