New Delhi: A person availing reservation
in state jobs on grounds of being a "backward" cannot claim the same privilege in the Centre unless declared so by the Union government as well, the Central Administrative Tribunal
has ruled.
The tribunal passed the order on a petition by four
members of the Jat community, recognised as Other Backward
Class (OBC) in state of Delhi and seeking quota benefits for
appointment as lower division clerks (LDCs) in the Employees
State Insurance Corporation Limited, a Central government
firm.
They reported for duty after clearing the selection
process, but were not allowed to join on the ground that they
did not figure as OBC in the Central government list and were not entitled to quota benefits.
The petitioners pleaded before the tribunal that the
selection was to be made for Delhi region so the OBC
candidates belonging to Delhi and coming under the OBC list of
the state should be considered for appointment.
The tribunal, however, refused to grant any relief to
them and dismissed their petitions.
"In our considered opinion, it would not matter that
the recruitment has been made for specific regions including
Delhi region for grant of benefit of reservation to the
candidates in the OBC list of the Government of NCT of Delhi,"
said a bench headed by V K Bali.
"What is material is that the recruitment is being
made for an agency of the Central Government," the tribunal
said.
PTI
First Published: Friday, December 10, 2010, 16:35