What is north east quota?
Currently, around 7.5\% of the vacancies are reserved for the STs and at least 20\% of this should be reserved for the STs of the North East. This reservation within reservation will ensure that not a single affluent community bears all the fruit of the reservation simply because they come under the umbrella terms of ST.
What happens if reserved seats are not filled in job?
What happens when seats for reserved categories are not filled up? In cases of employment in central public services, if during the first recruitment attempt the SC/ST/OBC seats are not filled up, then a second recruitment will be made in the same recruiting year.
What is the rule of reservation in promotion?
2.7 Reservation in all the above cases shall be given at the rate of 15 per cent for the Scheduled Castes and 7.5 per cent for the Scheduled Tribes. However, reservation in promotion is not given in the grades in which the element of direct recruitment, if any, exceeds 75 per cent [36012/17/88- Estt.
What is SC ST reservation?
In central-government funded higher education institutions, 22.5\% of available seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students (7.5\% for STs, 15\% for SCs,20\% for ESC,12\% for SCA,16\% for SCB,22\% for SCC,18\% for SCD).
What is the percentage of reservation in government jobs for SC/ST?
Scheduled Castes (SC) are given 15\% quota in jobs/higher educational institutions while Schedule Tribes (ST) are given 7.5\% quota in jobs/higher educational institutions. Reservation is provided not only with respect to direct recruitment but also with respect to promotions for SC/ST category (Article 16 (4A)).
What is the status of SC/ST reservation in the Indian Parliament?
SC / ST enjoys reservation in the Lok Sabha and in the Legislative Assembly as per Article 332 and Article 334 states that EVERY 10 years the reservation received in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assembly will be REVIEWED, (not ended) after 10 years.
Is the SC/ST Act being misused?
Quite recently, the Supreme Court observed that the SC/ST Act has been misused quite often. This connects to caste discrimination. Have you ever encountered photos like the one above? Have you ever had multiple forwards on Whatsapp with details on how the reservation system is destroying the country? If you haven’t, you must be living under a rock.
Is reservation for EWS constitutionally unviable?
It [the reservation for EWS] is constitutionally unviable. There are two problems. The first is that reservation cannot be [granted] on economic grounds alone as has been laid down by the Supreme Court in the Mandal [Commission] case. But EWS is on purely economic grounds because the relevant 103rd amendment does not mention caste.