A Handbook on Reservation of Jobs for SCs, STs in Government Services

Abstract

This book is a humble attempt of the institute where various rules or privileges provided by the Constitution of India in connection with Government services or jobs to Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes people are explained in lucid way. This handbook is a compilation containing Government Acts, Rules and Regulations, orders etc. on the Government Reservation policies both Central and State Government on the reservation of posts in services etc. for Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes. Attempt has also been made to include all the necessary OMs Circulars Notifications etc. in this volume. Incorporation of the orders of the Honourable Supreme Court in three leading cases was necessary due to their frequent references in the context of reservation policy while the orders are not always available when required. Discrimination against groups of citizens on grounds of caste, creed, religion, language, national origin, occupational pattern has been observed in human society since time immemorial. In India too certain groups or categories of people have long been subjected to discrimination due mainly to the fact that their status is ascribed to them by birth in certain caste, creed and tribal groups. Their problems can be understood only in terms of the basic character of Indian society which consists of a multitude of closed status groups with unequal ranks, each with its own privileges and disabilities supported by traditional sanctions. These categories or groups of oppressed or discriminated people are referred to as The Backward Classes what further can be classified into three broad categories like (a) Scheduled Caste or Dalits, (b) Scheduled Tribes and finally (c) the Other Backward Classes, while the first two categories are listed in the Constitution and the third group is not listed and defined very closely. The third group happens to be the most heterogeneous and highly complex and their social structure varies from place to place. In order to make arrangement for accelerated progress of these communities the Constitution has under Article 341 and 342 made provision for identification of these communities under two Schedules namely Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.