Promotion quota: PL Punia demands benefit for OBCs
"A conscious decision was taken by the Government of India to extend reservations in services in direct recruitment to Other Backward Classes in order to ensure participation of this section of society in governance and decision making. There are certain levels where direct recruitment is not held and unless we extend the reservation in promotions to OBCs at that level we shall not have their participation in those levels on government," said the letter sent in June.
Punia told ET that this was also done to make sure "there was equity and no division between classes facing discrimination." Congress MP Hanumantha Rao too has demanded the same through the OBC MPs forum in Parliament. This demand, emanating from a section of Congress, a BSP leader said, was unacceptable to it. "There is no comparison between the two sections, and we don't know what is behind this," the BSP MP said. The Samajwadi Party too had not made any such demand, instead their statements were more towards making sure that the bill on quotas for promotions for SC/STs was blocked.
"If this bill is cleared, then you can be sure that in a few years not a single officer from privileged castes would be at secretary level or in the top echelons of the bureaucracy," said SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav. He said he had not heard of any extension programme for OBCs. "Let the government put its view forward," he said. UPA had tried to introduce the bill on the last day of the monsoon session. Mayawati does not look like she would let the government get away without getting the bill cleared
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Government staff to strike against quota in promotion bill
LUCKNOW: State government offices are likely to witness a sharp decline in attendance post noon on Monday with employees responding to a work boycott call to protest the Centre pushing the reservation in promotion bill in Parliament. The protest would get full support of the Samajwadi Party-led state government which is already against the motion.
The demonstration will see participation of over 18 lakh employee of various departments, essentially those who would be affected by the provision. Employee will completely stop working after 1 pm in various district headquarters. In Lucknow, the employees will hold demonstration outside Vidhan Bhawan from 2 pm.
Shailendra Dubey the president of Sarvajan Hitay Sanrakshan Samiti said employee associations of various departments coordinating to make the protest a success across the state. The employees, essentially from the general and OBC categories, have under the aegis of the samiti threatened going on strike in case the bill is passed. It is scheduled to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
On the other hand, UP Officers' Association, the union of Dalit employees, said it would not allow government functioning to be affected by the protest. "Reservation is the constitutional right of Dalits, who otherwise face harassment since the provision was withdrawn by the state government,'' said association president K B Ram.
The move to introduce the bill in the upper house comes three days after Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and party Rajya Sabha MP lend her support to the Congress-led UPA government on the foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail sector issue, in what was seen as conditioned to bring in the reservation bill in Parliament.
BSP, a key proponent of reservation in promotion for government employees, has been pressing the demand to bring the bill days after Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court order that struck down the provision put in place by the previous Mayawati government that came to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2007.
Situation changed completely post-March 2012, when Samajwadi Party swept the UP polls. Heavily against the provision, Akhilesh Yadav government decided immediately to abide by the court order. Soon, hundreds of engineers and state government employees, waiting for their due promotion got their share.
It remains to be seen how the SP combats the bill even as Mulayam Singh Yadav tries to consolidate his OBC vote bank (OBCs are not covered in the provision), while wooing the upper caste by opposing the bill. Senior party leaders, including SP boss Mulayam Singh Yadav and national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, had been insisting that the provision was against "natural justice".
The demonstration will see participation of over 18 lakh employee of various departments, essentially those who would be affected by the provision. Employee will completely stop working after 1 pm in various district headquarters. In Lucknow, the employees will hold demonstration outside Vidhan Bhawan from 2 pm.
Shailendra Dubey the president of Sarvajan Hitay Sanrakshan Samiti said employee associations of various departments coordinating to make the protest a success across the state. The employees, essentially from the general and OBC categories, have under the aegis of the samiti threatened going on strike in case the bill is passed. It is scheduled to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
On the other hand, UP Officers' Association, the union of Dalit employees, said it would not allow government functioning to be affected by the protest. "Reservation is the constitutional right of Dalits, who otherwise face harassment since the provision was withdrawn by the state government,'' said association president K B Ram.
The move to introduce the bill in the upper house comes three days after Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and party Rajya Sabha MP lend her support to the Congress-led UPA government on the foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail sector issue, in what was seen as conditioned to bring in the reservation bill in Parliament.
BSP, a key proponent of reservation in promotion for government employees, has been pressing the demand to bring the bill days after Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court order that struck down the provision put in place by the previous Mayawati government that came to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2007.
Situation changed completely post-March 2012, when Samajwadi Party swept the UP polls. Heavily against the provision, Akhilesh Yadav government decided immediately to abide by the court order. Soon, hundreds of engineers and state government employees, waiting for their due promotion got their share.
It remains to be seen how the SP combats the bill even as Mulayam Singh Yadav tries to consolidate his OBC vote bank (OBCs are not covered in the provision), while wooing the upper caste by opposing the bill. Senior party leaders, including SP boss Mulayam Singh Yadav and national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, had been insisting that the provision was against "natural justice".
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