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37. Further under Rule 5(4) of the Recruitment Rules, 1978 it is provided that in case suitable
candidates are not available for promotion, the posts shall be filled up by direct recruitment and vice
versa. Thus, there must be evidence that suitable candidates were “not available” for direct recruitment.
Such non-availability cannot be inferred when, as a fact, not even a reference is made to the Commission
to find out if upon advertisement, anybody will respond. Thus there is no breaking down of the quota
rule.
38. That in such situations there can be no break down of the quota rule is clear from decided
cases. In N.K. Chauhan v. State of Gujarat (1977) 1 SCC 308 : (AIR 1977 SC 251 : 1977 Lab IC
38), the rule said that ‘as far as practicable’, the quota must be followed. Krishna Iyer J. said that
there must be evidence to show that effort was made to fill up the direct recruitment quota. It must be
positively proved that it was not feasible, nor practicable to get direct recruits. The reason should not
be ‘procrastinary’. In Syed Khalid Rizvi v. Union of India, 1993 Suppl (3) SCC 575, it was held that
mere non-preparation of select list does not amount to collapse of the quota rule. In M.S.L. Patil v.
State of Maharashtra, (1996) 11 SCC 361 it was held that mere omission to prepare lists did not
amount to break down to quota rule.
39. One other significant fact is that the cabinet note dated 19-12-1997 only states that cases of
the ad hoc promotees if referred to PSC, will take a long time for getting the necessary recommendation.
But nowhere it is said that direct recruitment was not possible nor that direct recruits were not available
or such recruitment had became impracticable. For the aforesaid reasons, we hold that the quota rule
has not broken down.
Rota : No express rota rule :
39 A. We shall next refer to the contention for the direct recruits that “rota – quota rule is to
be applied. Before us, it is not disputed by the learned counsel for the direct recruits that in the
Recruitment Rules, 1978, there is only a quota rule and that no rota rule has been expressly prescribed.
Question is whether ‘rota’ can be implied ?
40. The direct recruits contend that rota is to be implied or read into be implied or read into the
‘quota’ rule. It is also argued that there has been a previous practice of applying a rota and that this
fact stands conceded in the counter-affidavit filed by the Government in SWP. 824-B/94. Reliance is
also placed on Cabinet note of December, 1997 where the view of the Law Department that quota-
rota rule is to be applied, is referred to.
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