New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday refused to dilute the conditions for reservation in promotion for SC/ST employees and held that the collection of quantifiable data is mandatory apart from assessment of inadequacy of representation after periodic review.
A Bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao passed the judgement. The Apex Court had on Oct. 26 reserved the verdict after hearing the arguments and detailed submissions from the Centre and all the parties. The Court said a review period should be determined by the Union Government. “The State is obligated to collect quantifiable data before granting reservation in promotion to Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ ST) employees. It cannot lay down new yardstick after the Constitution bench decision in Nagaraj (2006) and Jarnail Singh (2018),” the Court said.
