Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 30: The Jammu University Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Employees Association has accused the university administration of not paying any attention to their issues notwithstanding repeated reminders over the same.
In a meeting held here today under the chairmanship of the Association president, R L Kaith, the members said that a number of representations/memorandums were submitted to the Vice-Chancellor during the last one year but there was no response/relief from his side.
While discussing the reservation in promotions, the Association General Secretary Surjeet Singh Heer said that not filling up quota of reserved posts that were to be filled up with Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe employees in various cadres through promotions as per the then J&K Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe Reservation in Promotion Rule for about of three years is illegal, unconstitutional and a contempt of the Supreme Court which stayed the J&K High Court’s Order dated 09.10.2015.
The Association Joint Secretary Bodh Raj Angural maintained that the then Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 1954 had made Article 141 applicable to the then State of J&K and hence law declared by the Supreme Court of India was equally applicable to all courts including the High Court. Moreover, he added, there is no law declared either by the Apex Court or High Court under which reserved vacancies to be filled up through promotions could be kept in backlog.
The Association said that advisory issued by the then State Govt of J&K to keep the quota of promotions of SCs & STs under the reserved category in backlog stands superseded by the law declared to this effect by the Supreme Court and the Union Govt and therefore, the reserved quota of promotions kept in backlog since 2015 be immediately unleashed and filled up with the eligible SC & ST employees. The Association also sought resolution of its other issues raised in the charter of demands that was submitted to the Vice Chancellor on November 27, 2019.
Follow our WhatsApp channel