(The Gist of PIB) SC/ST promotion: SC upholds validity of Karnataka govt law [MAY-2019]

(The Gist of PIB) SC/ST promotion: SC upholds validity of Karnataka govt law [MAY-2019]

SC/ST promotion: SC upholds validity of Karnataka govt law

• The Supreme Court upheld Karnataka government’s 2018 law, which provided for reservation in promotion and seniority to SC and ST employees.

Key highlights

• The Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (To the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act, 2018.
• It received the President’s assent in 2018 and was published in the gazette in June 2018.
• To provide reservation in promotion and seniority to SC and ST employees.
• The Supreme Court’s verdict came on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Act. The bench ruled that providing the reservation would not affect the efficiency of administration and was not at odds with the principle of meritocracy.

Significance of verdict:

• With this Karnataka becomes the first State to gain from a Constitution (five-judge) Bench order of September 2018 that modified a 2006 order requiring the States to show quantifiable data to prove the “backwardness” of a SC/ST community in order to provide quota in promotion in public employment.

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