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RESERVATION IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES
for the Other Backward Classes. Accordingly, the Government has withdrawn the
said Bill and introduced another Bill, namely, the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts and Services) Bill, 2008. The Rajya Sabha
has passed that Bill on 23 December, 2008. It is yet to be considered by the Lok
Sabha. A Reservation Bill for the Other Backward Classes is under examination.
REPRESENTATION OF SC/ST/OBC ON SELECTION BOARDS
7.8 Instructions exist that the Ministries/Departments etc should endeavour to nominate
to the maximum extent possible, a SC/ST officer on the Selection Boards,
Departmental Promotion Committees constituted for various posts/services under
them. Particularly, where a Selection Board or Departmental Promotion Committee
has to make bulk selection for a large number of vacancies say for 30 or more at a
time, no effort should be spared in finding a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
officer for inclusion in the Selection Board/Departmental Promotion Committee.
7.8.1 Wherever a Selection Committee/Board exists or has to be constituted for making
recruitment to 10 or more vacancies in Group ‘C’ or Group ‘D’ posts/services, it is
mandatory to have one member belonging to SC/ST/OBC and one member
belonging to minority community in such Committees/Boards. One of the members
of the Selection Committee/Boards, whether from the general category or from the
minority community or from SC/ST/OBC, should be a lady failing which a lady
member should be co-opted on the Committee/Board. It is also to be ensured that
where the number of vacancies against which selection is to be made is less than
10, no effort should be spared in finding a SC/ST/OBC Officer, a Minority Community
officer and a lady officer for inclusion in such Committees/Boards.
SPECIAL RECRUITMENT DRIVES
7.9 In order to protect the interests of SC/ST/OBC communities and to ensure that the
posts reserved for them are filled up only by candidates belonging to these categories
it has been decided that where sufficient number of candidates belonging to these
categories are not available to fill up the vacancies reserved in direct recruitment
for them, the vacancies would not be filled. Such vacancies are carried forward to
the subsequent recruitment year as backlog reserved vacancies. Some reserved
vacancies of SCs and STs in promotion are also not filled and carried forward as
backlog vacancies. A Special Recruitment Drive was launched in 2004 to fill up all
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