{"id":34346,"date":"2014-07-22T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34346"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:47:41","slug":"scst-promotions-sc-restores-relaxed-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/scst-promotions-sc-restores-relaxed-norms","title":{"rendered":"SC\/ST promotions: SC restores relaxed norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/court-wants-10-percent-more-judges-for-subordinate-courts\/supreme-court-210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19664\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-wants-10-percent-more-judges-for-subordinate-courts\/supreme-court-210\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19664 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?resize=173%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"supreme court\" width=\"173\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court has allowed a plea for restoring relaxed norms in central government departmental promotion examinations for Scheduled Castes\/Tribes employees which was withdrawn in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court termed as \u201cillegal\u201d the 1997 Office Memorandum containing the instructions to withdraw the norms for departmental promotions to SCs\/STs. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha set aside the 1997 Central government office order and directed to provide reservation with all consequential reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Personnel, in December 1970, had relaxed standards in the case of Scheduled Castes\/Tribes candidates in departmental competitive examinations and in departmental confirmation examinations. However, in 1997, the government had withdrawn this order which came under challenge and was allowed by the apex court. \u201cConsequently, civil appeals are allowed. The impugned order is set-aside.<\/p>\n<p>1997 Office Memorandum is declared illegal. The respondents are directed to modify the results in the Section Officers\/Stenographers (Grade B\/Grade-I) Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, 1996 by providing for reservation and extend all consequential reliefs to the appellants, if not granted so far,\u201d the bench also comprising Justices J S Khehar, J Chelameswar, A K Sikri and R F Nariman said.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has allowed a plea for restoring relaxed norms in central government departmental promotion examinations for Scheduled Castes\/Tribes employees which was withdrawn in 1997. The apex court termed as \u201cillegal\u201d the 1997 Office Memorandum containing the instructions to withdraw the norms for departmental promotions to SCs\/STs. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28443,47765,29200,29201,47726,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-34346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-chief-justice-r-m-lodha","tag-news","tag-sc-restores-relaxed-norms","tag-scst-promotions","tag-supreme-court","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC\/ST promotions: SC restores relaxed norms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SC\/ST promotions: SC restores relaxed norms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/scst-promotions-sc-restores-relaxed-norms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC\/ST promotions: SC restores relaxed norms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SC\/ST promotions: SC restores relaxed norms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/scst-promotions-sc-restores-relaxed-norms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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