RESERVATION FOR SC/ST
AND OBC
Article 16(4) of the Constitution enables
provision of reservation to Backward Class of citizens, who are not adequately
represented in the State. Reservation is provided to Scheduled Castes (SCs),
Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) through executive
instructions issued from time to time, which has force of law, as held by the
Supreme Court in Indira Sawhney case.
As
per extant instructions, reservation is provided to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled
Tribes and Other Backward Classes at the rate of 15%, 7.5% and 27%,
respectively, in case of direct recruitment on all-India basis by open
competition. In case of direct recruitment on all-India basis otherwise than by
open competition, the percentage fixed is 16.66%, 7.5% and 25.84%, respectively.
As
per information received from 71 Ministries/Departments, the representation of
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in the posts and
services under the Central Government as on 01.01.2014 is 17.35%, 8.38% and
19.28%, respectively.
While
the representation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is as per the
prescribed percentage, the representation of Other Backward Classes is less
than the prescribed percentage due to the following reasons:-
(i)
Reservation for Other Backward Classes started only from the year 1993.
(ii)
OBC candidates who are appointed upto 1993, that is before introduction of reservation for OBCs, are not included for
counting their representation;
(iii)
There is generally a time gap between occurrence of vacancies and filling up such vacancies,
as recruitment is a time consuming process.
Based
on recommendations of a Committee headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Social
Justice and Empowerment, time bound action plan for filling up backlog reserved
vacancies has been intimated to all concerned Departments/Ministries on
20.11.2014 for filling up such vacancies by August 2016. The Action Plan
includes study of reasons for non-filling of backlog reserved vacancies, review
of prescribed standards, if required; conducting Special Recruitment Drive and
conducting pre-recruitment training programmes.
This
was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra
Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Laxmi Narayan Yadav and Shri
Harishchandra Chavan in the Lok Sabha today.
Source : PIB
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