<p>The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Karnataka government time till November 30 to revise promotion list of employees of different departments and take further consequent actions in terms of its judgement of February 9 pertaining to reservations to the SC/ST staff.<br /><br />A bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U U Lalit rejected a plea made by senior advocate Basava Prabhu Patil for nine months time – six months for revising the seniority list and three more months – for other actions.<br /><br />Responding a contempt petition filed by over hundred employees, Patil submitted that the list has been revised for 10 departments but it remained to be completed for 32 other departments.<br /><br />The government employees represented by senior advocates Rajeev Dhawan and Kiran Suri sought contempt actions against Chief Secretary, Subhash Chandra Khuntia and Principal Secretary PWD Lakshmi Narayan and others, saying the state failed to implement the judgement by May 31, a deadline, set by the court. “The employees are getting retired without any benefit,” they submitted.<br /><br />The counsel also said in the meantime, the state government also wanted to bring an Ordinance to circumvent the judgement. Patil also tried to bring it in the court's notice.<br /><br />The bench, however, said, “We will see...let's give some more time to the state government.”<br /><br />The court initially wanted to give time only till October 31 but extended till November 30 on request by the state government. It fixed the contempt petition for further hearing on January 15.<br /><br />The apex court had in February directed for revision of the seniority list of employees within three months. It also declared as unconstitutional the provisions of the Karnataka Determination of Seniority of the Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (To the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act, 2002. It had said the consequential promotions granted to serving employees, based on seniority benefit, will be treated as ad hoc and liable to be reviewed.<br /><br />The court had then noted that the exercise for determining ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘overall efficiency’ were not undertaken before granting promotion to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe employees</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Karnataka government time till November 30 to revise promotion list of employees of different departments and take further consequent actions in terms of its judgement of February 9 pertaining to reservations to the SC/ST staff.<br /><br />A bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U U Lalit rejected a plea made by senior advocate Basava Prabhu Patil for nine months time – six months for revising the seniority list and three more months – for other actions.<br /><br />Responding a contempt petition filed by over hundred employees, Patil submitted that the list has been revised for 10 departments but it remained to be completed for 32 other departments.<br /><br />The government employees represented by senior advocates Rajeev Dhawan and Kiran Suri sought contempt actions against Chief Secretary, Subhash Chandra Khuntia and Principal Secretary PWD Lakshmi Narayan and others, saying the state failed to implement the judgement by May 31, a deadline, set by the court. “The employees are getting retired without any benefit,” they submitted.<br /><br />The counsel also said in the meantime, the state government also wanted to bring an Ordinance to circumvent the judgement. Patil also tried to bring it in the court's notice.<br /><br />The bench, however, said, “We will see...let's give some more time to the state government.”<br /><br />The court initially wanted to give time only till October 31 but extended till November 30 on request by the state government. It fixed the contempt petition for further hearing on January 15.<br /><br />The apex court had in February directed for revision of the seniority list of employees within three months. It also declared as unconstitutional the provisions of the Karnataka Determination of Seniority of the Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (To the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act, 2002. It had said the consequential promotions granted to serving employees, based on seniority benefit, will be treated as ad hoc and liable to be reviewed.<br /><br />The court had then noted that the exercise for determining ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘overall efficiency’ were not undertaken before granting promotion to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe employees</p>
