New Delhi: Observing that reservations in promotions for scheduled caste and scheduled tribes cannot be turned on without time limits but only until they are represented adequately, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directing the center to justify the continuation of the quota.
Judge L was carried out by the center after 1997 to determine the proportion of SC and ST employees in the central government’s work.
“Where is the data that says that there is a shortage of representation to justify reservations in promotion? Show us data,” Bench told the government.
The bench is hearing a central petition that challenges the Delhi High Court order that stops the notification of reservations in promotion for SC / ST employees outside the five-year period of the Supreme Court has been set in the case of Indra Sawney.
“Exercise what the government did after 1997 to determine the adequacy or inability of their representatives to continue reservations in promotion …
after a certain period of time, SCS / STS representation will definitely be more than 15 and 7.5%.
We want to know if there is an exercise The government is done by obtaining data that can be measured.
Where data says that there is a shortage of representation to justify reservations in promotion.
Show us data, “said the bench.
“How do you justify reservations in promotion? You only talk about principle but not about data.
There must be justification for continuing reservations in promotion,” the bench told ASG.
When the court insisted, AG said he would return on Wednesday whether there was data that could be measured from the representation of SC / St.
However, Venugopal told the court that in 1965, the percentage of SC and ST staff at the central government work was 3.34% and 0.62% which had increased to 17.5% and 6.82%.
He said the representation of SC-ST is deeper in the category of Group C and Group D and less in category A and B.
AG also argues that adequate representation means that their part in government work must be proportional to their part in the population.
In 2017, the Delhi High Court had canceled the notification of the batch of requests submitted by the general category of government employees who approached the court through their lawyers Kumar Parimal.
HC accepts its submission that such a step made under article 16 (4a) is not permitted without adequate data to prove the inability of representation and retardation.
HC canceled the Department of Personnel and Office Training notes dated August 13, 1997.