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Govt employees demand action on SC order
TNN, Dec 16, 2010, 03.27am IST
JAIPUR: The state government employees from the general and OBC
categories staged a dharna outside the chief minister's office on
Wednesday to demand implementation of the Supreme Court order that
turned down "consequential seniority" benefits in promotions given to
employees from the SC/ST categories.
Hundreds of employees of the state secretariat held a meeting in the
open, shouted slogans and staged a sit-in outside the CMO, while the
cabinet was discussing proposals related to the industry and
agriculture departments. A delegation of the protestors later
submitted a memorandum of their demand to chief secretary Salauddin
Ahmed and chief minister Ashok Gehlot.
Last week, the apex court had turned down six appeals by the state
government and the affected SC/ST employees against a Rajasthan High
Court order that took away the benefit of consequential seniority'
granted to the two reserved categories. The HC and the apex court
found that the benefit being granted by the state was in violation of
the M Nagraj Case decided in 2006.
"Time and again, the courts have held that the governments cannot give
reservation in promotions or consequential seniority benefits to the
SC/ST category employees until the conditions laid down in the M
Nagraj case are fulfilled," the protestors' leader, Ram Niranjan Gaur
told mediapersons. "The government is violating the court orders under
pressure from the SC/ST category employees. But, the general and OBC
category employees will now not allow the government to take such an
anti-employee stand," Gaur asserted.
The protestors leaders said they were even planning to send a legal
notice to the state government to demand prompt execution of the SC
order passed on December 7 and the high court judgment passed on
February 5 this year. With contempt petitions against CS Ahmed and
principal secretary (personnel) Khemraj pending before the apex court
in the same matter, the government is in a tight position and had to
nullify the promotions recently granted to four officers in the excise
department.
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