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Thursday, January 27, 2011
[ZESTCaste] ‘Check hasty promotions of SC/ST engineers'
'Check hasty promotions of SC/ST engineers'
Express News Service
First Published : 27 Jan 2011 02:39:34 AM IST
BANGALORE: A delegation of chief engineers from Public Works and Water
Resources Departments has urged the government to limit the
reservation for promotion of reserve category engineers (SC/ST) as per
an order of Karnataka High Court.
The division bench of Karnataka High Court had on December 23, 2010,
while hearing a writ petition filed by the president of Karnataka
Engineers Association M Nagaraj and several others categorically
stated that the maximum extent of reservation for promotion of reserve
category engineers should not exceed 15 per cent in the case of SCs
and 3 per cent for STs.
Nagaraj and others had gone to the court, challenging 85th
Constitutional Amendment Act, 2001, for providing accelerated
promotion and consequential seniority for reserve category engineers.
While the court upheld the government's policy of providing
reservation in promotion, it had made it clear that the reservation
should not cross the prescribed limit.
Armed with the high court order, a delegation of probationers and
general category engineers had recently met PWD Minister C M Udasi and
PWD Principal Secretary S V Ranganath, demanding restriction of
reservation in promotions.
According to them, the extent of promotion given to the SCs and STs in
all cadres at present has exceeded the prescribed limit. While 52 per
cent of the posts were occupied by the reserved category engineers in
the cadre of executive engineers, the extent of reservation given in
superintending engineer and chief engineer cadres is 30.49 per cent
and 25.45 per cent respectively, they claimed.
"This is against the court verdict and we are demanding to set this
right," an engineer told Express on condition of anonymity. "We are
not seeking the immediate reversal of excessive promotions of reserved
category engineers but asking the government not to give them the
benefit of accelerated promotions till the time prescribed quota of
reservation is maintained," he added.
They also demanded that the government publish a fresh seniority list
in all cadres of engineers.
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[ZESTCaste] Mirchpur residents' eleven-day agitation ends
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mirchpur-residents-eleven-day-agitation-ends-81656?pfrom=home-India
Mirchpur residents' eleven-day agitation ends
Press Trust of India, Updated: January 26, 2011 20:22 IST
Jind: The eleven-day long agitation by residents of Mirchpur and
adjoining villages protesting for a fresh probe into the killing of
two Dalits today ended after talks between leaders of the protesters
and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda concluded on a positive note.
The agitation resolved after talks between Bhag Singh Jalabh, convenor
of the 41 member committee constituted by Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap
Mahapanchayat, and Hooda, in Kaithal last night.
Jalabh said the meeting with the chief minister was held in a cordial
atmosphere and they had decided to lift the blockades at Jind and
other places.
Members of the pre-dominant Jat community had been sitting on the
tracks at Julani village near Jind railway station since January 15,
disrupting railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the
Delhi-Ferozepur route.
Following the truce, the agitators removed barricades they had used to
block the national highways and important road links here. They also
vacated the Delhi Ferozepur rail line in the evening, which they had
occupied since the last 11 days.
Jalabh said he had full faith in the system of delivery of justice and
assured full cooperation to the government and the administration in
maintaining peace and brotherhood, adding if the government failed to
act on its assurance, the agitation would be relaunched.
The villagers were protesting against the booking of 98 members of
their community in a case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Dalit
Tara Chand and his teenaged daughter Suman in Hisar district's
Mirchpur village on April 21 last year.
Rail traffic on various sections, including Jind-Rohtak and
Hissar-Bhiwani is expected to be restored soon after inspection of the
tracks, railway sources said.
The locked depot of the Haryana Roadways here was also reopened and
bus services would be restored soon, officials said.
A Delhi court on January 9 had directed the Haryana Government to move
all the 98 accused from Hisar jail to Tihar prison since their trial
was transferred to a court in Delhi following a Supreme Court order,
after the aggrieved party had moved the apex court claiming that a
fair trial was not possible in Haryana.
The protesters have been demanding that the probe be held by a Special
Investigation Team (SIT) either at Rohtak or Hisar and the accused be
lodged in either of the two jails.
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[ZESTCaste] Ananthamurthy bats for quota for Dalits in MNCs
BANGALORE, January 27, 2011
Ananthamurthy bats for quota for Dalits in MNCs
Staff Reporter
Writer U.R. Ananthamurthy and Socialist ideologue, Prof. Ravivarma
Kumar, former Chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, Karnataka
(right), during the Seminar on former Minister and Dalit leader late
B. Basavalingappa, at Yavanika, in Bangalore on January 26, 2011.
Photo: K. Murali Kumar.
Republic Day was celebrated on Wednesday across the city with festive
fervour. Seminars, flag hoisting ceremonies and other events marked
the occasion.
Jnanpith awardee U.R. Ananthamurthy called upon Dalits to pressure the
Government to provide them reservation in employment in multinational
companies (MNCs) that are coming to Bangalore.
Inaugurating a seminar on 'B. Basavalingappa rajakaranada kendra
sthanakke Dalita shakti', organised here by Dalit Sangharsh Samiti,
Dalit Students Federation and Dalit Women's Federation, the writer
suggested that the Dalits not only seek reservation, but also learn
English and seek employment in MNCs as equals.
A bike rally and a seminar seeking implementation of the ideals of the
Constitution was organised by the Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samiti.
The seminar sought to address issues of universal literacy and
disregard to the ideals set by the founding fathers in the
Constitution by successive governments.
Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court J.S. Khehar unfurled the
National Flag on the High Court premises.
The Bangalore Division of Southern Railways organised Republic Day
celebrations at the Railway Institute Grounds.
Three platoons of Railway Protection Force, St. John's Ambulance
Brigade, Bharat Scouts and Guides, Students of Kendriya Vidyalaya,
Shama Vidyashala and St. Philomina's High School took part in the
parade.
The former Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, participating in the
Republic Day function at the Postal Colony Welfare Association in
Sanjaynagar, said more industries should come to Karnataka.
Association president S. Jayaram submitted a memorandum seeking a
playground and a rangamandira in the colony.
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