[ZESTCaste] ‘Check hasty promotions of SC/ST engineers'

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'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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