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State unreserved staff to seek termination of Bhatnagar panel
TNN | May 18, 2011, 03.19am IST
JAIPUR: The state government employees belonging to the unreserved
categories have termed the Bhatnagar committee as unconstitutional,
saying it cannot review the Supreme Court order on reservation in
promotions.
The employees' organisation, Mission-72, has decided to approach the
high court to get the committee terminated and initiate contempt
proceedings against the state government.
A controversy over whether or not the reserved category employees
should get caste-based reservation in promotions has sharply divided
the state government employees, following a Supreme Court order in
December last year. As per the order, the government was to
discontinue reservation in promotions to employees from the scheduled
castes ( SC) and scheduled tribes ( ST) categories until the
preconditions laid down in the Nagraj case judgment were fulfilled.
One of the preconditions was that the reservation benefit could be
granted only if the reserved category employees were inadequately
represented in the state government services.
"Since the reserved category employees are overrepresented in the
government jobs, the state government had no choice but the stop
giving reservation in promotions. Instead, the government constituted
the Bhatnagar committee to review the court order," said Gulshan
Baghla, convener of the Mission-72 organisation.
The rift between employees from the reserved and unreserved categories
widened with the department of personnel's circular issued on May 11,
saying that the reserved category candidates making it to the
recruitment merit list without the reservation benefit shall be
counted among the unreserved category candidates. The Mission-72
organisation has criticised the circular, while the reserved category
employees have welcomed it.
"The department has only reissued the circular that was first issued
in the year 2000. This has been the rule since long," said Rajpal
Meena, state president of the SC/ST Karamchari Mahasangh.
The Samata Andolan, another organisation of unreserved category
employees, pointed out that the new circular was different from the
old circular as a crucial precondition has been removed from it. "As
per the old circular, a reserved category candidate making it to the
merit list was counted among the unreserved category candidates only
if he had availed of no other reservation-linked relaxation except for
an exemption in the examination fee at the time of recruitment," said
Parashar Sharma, president of the Samata Andolan. He added that the
new circular states that reserved category candidates who avail of
even the age and qualifying marks relaxations at the entry level will
also be counted among the unreserved category candidates. "The new
circular is, therefore, unconstitutional and we will challenge it
before the high court," Sharma said.
The employees from unreserved categories have planned a public rally
at Jaipur on June 17 to protest against the state government's alleged
bias towards the reserved category employees.
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