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UPPCL staff protest against reservation in job promotions
TNN, Feb 20, 2011, 01.08am IST
LUCKNOW: Employees of UP Power Corporation, on Saturday, stepped up
public outcry against reservations for scheduled castes and scheduled
tribes in job promotions. Aggrieved UP government employees, headed by
Shailendra Dubey, also released a list of state government departments
where a large number of scheduled posts were lying vacant.
Dubey said: "The UP government did not promote any employees from the
SC and ST categories for the last three years because of the
litigation that is pending in court. But as a result of this callous
attitude, even the departmental development work has suffered. In
early January, the Allahabad High Court quashed the state government's
2007 order, but the government has still not acted on the fresh
orders.''
The trouble dates back to September 2007, when UP government issued
orders providing for SC and ST candidates to be promoted to unreserved
posts also, in case the numbers of reserved seats fell short. This, in
effect meant, that employees from other backward classes and general
categories would have to relinquish their hold over unreserved
vacancies in government departments as well.
Immediately after the order was issued in 2007, however, most
departments of the UP government sought stay orders from the High
Court in October 2007. Due to the pending litigation, UP government
was unable to promote any SC or ST candidates to higher posts.
However, on January 4, 2011, the Allahabad High Court quashed UP
government's orders. It said: "We declare the provisions of Section
3(7) of the Act, 1994 and that of Rule 8-A of the UP Government
Servants Seniority (third Amendment) Rules, 2007 as invalid, ultra
vires and unconstitutional. Consequently, the Government Orders dates
17.10.2007 is also hereby quashed.''
Following the court orders, nearly 12 lakh employees of UP government,
belonging to the general category and other backward classes are now
demanding that all state government employees be promoted in
accordance with the seniority standards with immediate effect. "We
also want that those junior officials who were promoted without making
the cut on the selection criteria should be removed immediately and
also that all those persons who retired from services without being
able to avail of the promotion benefits, be reinstated,'' Dubey added.
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