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Madras High Court Directs State To Prescribe Separate Norms For Transgender Persons In Employment And Educational Avenues

The Madras High Court has directed the state government to prescribe separate norms for transgender persons in employment and educational avenues. In every employment and educational avenues, the Government shall prescribe separate norms for transgenders which shal be below the norms prescribed for male and female candidates,” the court ruled. Justice Bhavani Subbaroyan remarked that the state government was still …

“Need Of The Hour”: Madras High Court Upholds Amendment Bringing Chairman, Members Of PSC Under Purview Of State Vigilance Commission & DVAC

The Madras High Court recently upheld an amendment to the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Regulation 1954, bringing the Chairman and Members of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission under the purview of the State Vigilance Commission and Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption with effect from August 9, 2011. The first batch had challenged a government order of the Administrative …

Madras HC dismisses plea seeking backward class recognition after religious conversion

The Madras High Court dismissed a writ petition seeking to be identified as a BC Muslim after conversion. The Zonal Deputy Tahsildar, Ramanathapuram Taluk issued a community certificate dated October 28, 2015, certifying that the petitioner belonged to the Labbais community. The main issue of caste certification cropped up when the man appeared for the TNPSC exam for direct recruitment …

Reservation For Women In Public Employment Can Only Be Horizontal, Not Vertical: Madras High Court To TNPSC

The Madras High Court has categorically held that the reservation for women in public employment can only be made horizontally and not vertically. The provisions stipulate that a minimum 30% of all the vacancies to be filled through direct recruitment shall be set apart for women candidates, irrespective of the fact whether the rule of reservation of appointment applies to …

The Constitution does not expressly permit reservation for women in public employment. Therefore, women can, at best, be provided only horizontal and not vertical reservation on the basis of the Supreme Court’s pronouncement in the famous Indra Sawhney’s case, the Madras High Court has ruled. Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala held that the 30% reservation provided …

Caste And Privacy - A Note On Madras High Court Judgement

Public Information Officers Who Mechanically Reject RTI Applications Should Be Shown The Doors, Says Madras HC [Read Order]

Public Information Officers who mechanically reject the RTI Applications should be shown the doors as they are unfit to hold the said post, said the Madras High Court recently.Justice S. Vaidyanathan observed thus while dismissing a writ petition filed by Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission which sought to quash an order passed by Tamil Nadu Information Commission directing it to …