In a bid to regulate caste validation of
central government employees, the Bombay High Court last month had
directed central government offices to give details of the caste
verification of their employees recruited in SC/ST category. These
offices have been asked to file an affidavit by February 10, 2014.
Pune-based NGO Adivasi Kruti Samiti led
by Ravindra Talpe through advocate Uday Warunjkarhad had filed the writ
petition. “The state government had adhered to the rules but central
government offices were found violating the rules. We have cases from
the central organisations where of the 743 workers in the said category
only 25 of them have their caste verification done. Thirteen of them
have got promoted without the necessary caste validity certificate,”
stated Talpe in the petition.
Talpe pointed out that two persons were
given promotion while 12 candidates have not obtained validity from the
committee but their names being considered for promotion. Documents of
five employees were not found in the office of the authority that issued
the original caste certificate. They had selected three central
organisations for the petition. In the HC order, Justice A Oka and
Justice Revati Mohite Dhere said, “We direct that all appointing
authorities of the central government shall comply with the requirement
of Subsection (3) of Section 6 of the said Act as expeditiously as
possible and in any event, within a period of three months from today.”
The order states that central government
offices shall take action in accordance with Section 10 of the said Act
against the employees whose caste claim has been invalidated and/or
found false.
The order also states that while
promoting the employees to the promotional posts which are reserved, the
appointing authorities shall ensure that the orders of promotion are
issued only on provisional basis subject to all the concerned candidates
obtaining caste validity certificate within a reasonable time period.
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