BENGALURU: In a major aid for presidency workers belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) across all 63 departments in Karnataka, President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday gave his assent to a invoice which seeks to offer protection to SC/ST executive workers who face demotion.
After in search of clarifications from the Centre, a job which took more than six months, Rashtrapati Bhavan in any case signed the Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted at the Basis of Reservation Bill of 2017. The invoice used to be passed unanimously in the state meeting.
On February 9, 2017, the Supreme Court, in the B Okay Pavitra and others Vs Union of India case, struck down reservation in promotions since 1978 and asked the state executive to opposite promotions of SC-ST workers and get ready a revised list.
To purchase time, the Congress executive set up a committee under Okay Ratna Prabha, then additional leader secretary (ACS) and currently leader secretary, to study the standing of SC/ST executive workers in the executive and also filed a overview petition to offer protection to SC/ST executive workers, bearing in mind it used to be an election yr. While the overview petition used to be disregarded via the apex courtroom, the ACS committee found promotions are in keeping with potency, backwardness and inadequacy of the SC/ST backlogs in the state.
In November final yr, the state executive again proposed to circumvent the SC order via passing a invoice in the legislature. The invoice, which used to be sent to governor Vajubhai R Vala, used to be forwarded to the President for assent on December 16, 2017.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, listening to a contempt petition, two times passed strictures and set a closing date of May 9, 2018 to put into effect its order. Accordingly, the federal government ready a new seniority list across all departments, boards and firms and demoted over five,000 SC/ST executive workers and promoted equivalent selection of non-Dalit workers.
Despite being demoted, many Dalit workers refused to give up their postings, growing confusion and rifts amongst workers in more than a few executive departments.
Now with the President giving his assent to the invoice protective SC/ST promotions, the problem will as soon as again cause center burn as the federal government is predicted to revoke all demotions of SC/ST workers and promotions of normal category workers.
This though will not be the final of it. M Nagaraj, one of the first petitioners against the SC/ST promotion invoice of 1978, mentioned they'll again challenge the invoice in the Supreme Court. “Once the prevailing dispensation makes it into a regulation, we will be able to move the SC with a writ petition difficult the Act,” Nagaraj mentioned.
He went on so as to add: “How can the federal government attempt to supersede the SC with a invoice that denies normal category workers promotions? Promotions to normal category workers have been made under directions of the SC, and this invoice immediately challenges the authority of the judiciary.”
After in search of clarifications from the Centre, a job which took more than six months, Rashtrapati Bhavan in any case signed the Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted at the Basis of Reservation Bill of 2017. The invoice used to be passed unanimously in the state meeting.
On February 9, 2017, the Supreme Court, in the B Okay Pavitra and others Vs Union of India case, struck down reservation in promotions since 1978 and asked the state executive to opposite promotions of SC-ST workers and get ready a revised list.
To purchase time, the Congress executive set up a committee under Okay Ratna Prabha, then additional leader secretary (ACS) and currently leader secretary, to study the standing of SC/ST executive workers in the executive and also filed a overview petition to offer protection to SC/ST executive workers, bearing in mind it used to be an election yr. While the overview petition used to be disregarded via the apex courtroom, the ACS committee found promotions are in keeping with potency, backwardness and inadequacy of the SC/ST backlogs in the state.
In November final yr, the state executive again proposed to circumvent the SC order via passing a invoice in the legislature. The invoice, which used to be sent to governor Vajubhai R Vala, used to be forwarded to the President for assent on December 16, 2017.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, listening to a contempt petition, two times passed strictures and set a closing date of May 9, 2018 to put into effect its order. Accordingly, the federal government ready a new seniority list across all departments, boards and firms and demoted over five,000 SC/ST executive workers and promoted equivalent selection of non-Dalit workers.
Despite being demoted, many Dalit workers refused to give up their postings, growing confusion and rifts amongst workers in more than a few executive departments.
Now with the President giving his assent to the invoice protective SC/ST promotions, the problem will as soon as again cause center burn as the federal government is predicted to revoke all demotions of SC/ST workers and promotions of normal category workers.
This though will not be the final of it. M Nagaraj, one of the first petitioners against the SC/ST promotion invoice of 1978, mentioned they'll again challenge the invoice in the Supreme Court. “Once the prevailing dispensation makes it into a regulation, we will be able to move the SC with a writ petition difficult the Act,” Nagaraj mentioned.
He went on so as to add: “How can the federal government attempt to supersede the SC with a invoice that denies normal category workers promotions? Promotions to normal category workers have been made under directions of the SC, and this invoice immediately challenges the authority of the judiciary.”
President gives assent to SC/ST promotions bill
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