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Rajya Sabha passes promotion quota bill
Monday December 17, 2012 07:25:11 PM,
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New Delhi:
The Rajya Sabha Monday passed the constitution amendment bill to
provide reservations in promotions for the Scheduled Castes (SCs)
and the Scheduled Tribes (STs).
The Constitution (One Hundred Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2012
was passed with 206 members voting for the amendment and 10 voting
against after a two-day debate.
The bill, a major demand of the Bahujan Samaj Party, was strongly
opposed by the Samajwadi Party (SP).
Samajwadi Party member Ram Gopal Yadav said the provision of
"consequential seniority" in promotions was wrong and created
heartburn among people.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had suggested that the government
reconsider provisions in the bill related to Article 335 which
deals with efficiency in administration.
The bill delinks the term 'efficiency of administration' from the
claims of the SC and the ST for jobs and promotions, mentioned in
Article 335.
Introduced in the upper house Sep 4, the bill seeks to amend at
least four articles of the constitution to enable the government
to provide quotas in promotions for the SCs and the STs, who
constitute about 25 percent of the country's 1.2 billion
population.
Article 335 of the constitution states that the claims of the SC
and the ST have to be balanced with maintaining efficiency in
administration. The bill states the amendment will override the
provision of Article 355.
It will now be introduced in the Lok Sabha.
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