Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 19: Terming it detrimental to the interests of SC/ST/OBC/RBA/ALC and other reserved categories consisting of more than 85 percent population of the State, RK Kalsotra, State president, All India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organization, J&K opposed the move of the Government to introduce catch-up rule in the State.
While addressing the media persons here today, Mr Kalsotra said that despite apprising the Chief Minister about the concerns of the reserve classes many a time, Mr Omar Abdullah seems hardly aware of the of the rules governing seniority of the Government officers which are determined by the Civil Services Rules, 1956 -rule 24(C.C.A Rules), adding that these rules state that the seniority of person who is subject to these rules has reference to the service, class, category or the grade with reference to which the question has arisen and such seniority shall be determined by the date of his first appointment to such service, class, category or the grade as the case may be.
Mr Kalsotra further said that in this rule, first appointment in a service, class, category or the grade means appointment by promotion in a particular cadre and not in a lower one. Seniority in the new cadre starts afresh.
He said the catch up rule which entitles the officer of the general category to regain seniority over the reserved category officer who has become senior to him by reservation, has not been yet introduced by the Central Government wherein the reservation rules were made applicable in 50’s.
State president, All India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organization, J&K, as to why the State Government is in a hurry to introduce it when the reservation rules in the State were made applicable in 70’s that too after the great sacrifice of Shaheed Bhagat Amar Nath ji.
Mr Kalsotra further said that seniority by CSR rules 1956- Rule 24(CCA) is further supplemented by SRO 110 of 2000 in the case of reserved category officers.
A large number of members of the Organisation attended the press conference.
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