Ministry of personnel has been asked to keep a database of the number of people getting reserved jobs.
The ministry of personnel, which makes the reservation policy, doesn’t know how it is being implemented.
Now, a parliamentary committee on the welfare of SCs and STs has chided the ministry and directed it to create a national database of people getting jobs in the reserved category. The order came after the ministry told the committee that it doesn’t need to keep that information since all the states have their own figures.
What’s more, the ministry doesn’t even know of the cases where people got reserved jobs using false caste certificates.
Neither does it have a status report on action taken in such
cases. Let alone the states and the Union Territories, which have their own quota rules, the committee found that the ministry was unaware of such cases in other central ministries.
Concurring that every ministry and department was competent to make its own recruitment rules and fill posts on the basis of genuine caste certificates, the panel felt that that the prime duty of the ministry of personnel was to ensure proper implementation of the reservation policy.
The committee suggested that the ministry devise a centralised information-gathering system to keep track of what’s happening on the ground. This means the ministry is being asked to get information from all ministries, departments, public sector undertakings, banks, autonomous bodies and the states about the status of reserved posts and cases where applicants produced false caste certificates to get jobs.
The panel has also expressed its displeasure with the government for withdrawing the Reservation in Posts and Services Bill, 2004, which had a provision for penalising people falsely claiming to be a member of the SC/ST/OBCs. It has asked the government to explain why the bill was withdrawn.
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