SC Allows Interim Quota in SC/ST Promotions
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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 156 | Wednesday, 6 June 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10,593.15 (-35.35) qSENSEX 34,903.21 (-108.68) qDOW JONES 24,795.77 (-17.92) pNASDAQ 7628.38 (+21.92) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 67.15 (-0.04) qRUPEE/EURO 78.23 (-0.14) qGOLD/10GM 31,600 (-50) pSILVER/K 40,500 (+50) KHATTAR TAKES UP ‘NDA HAS TO SEEK AS US RENEGES ‘HAVE A DWARKA EXPRESSWAY VOTES IN BIHAR ON N-PACT, IRAN POWERFUL PROJECT WITH ON NITISH GOVT’S TO HIKE URANIUM ROLE IN GADKARI PG3 PERFORMANCE’ PG5 ENRICHMENT PG10 BADLA’ PG16 Govt working to BIG RELIEF FOR CENTRE Now, rail passengers to free housing sector SC allows interim quota pay six-time penalty for of middlemen: PM carrying excess luggage MPOST BUREAU MPOST BUREAU NEW DELHI: The government has in SC/ST promotions been working to free the housing sec- NEW DELHI: Just like air travel, tor of corruption and middlemen to MPOST BUREAU now beware of carrying excess ensure people get their own houses by the apex court earlier, including luggage while travelling in trains without facing troubles, Prime Min- NEW DELHI: In a major relief Highlights a reference made to a five-judge as well. ister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. to the Centre, the Supreme Court » The top court took into account the constitution bench As a result of numerous com- He also said that use of the lat- on Tuesday allowed it to go ahead Centre’s submissions that entire process plaints regarding excess baggage est technology is ensuring the faster with reservation in promotion for » During the hearing, the ASG cited being towed into train compart- building of houses for the poor in employees belonging to the SC of promotion has come to a ‘standstill’ the case laws on the issue of quota in ments, the Indian Railways has rural and urban areas at an afford- and ST category in “accordance » The ASG referred to orders passed promotion in government jobs decided to strictly enforce its able cost. with law”. over-three-decades-old baggage “We have been working to free The top court took into account allowance rules, which will see The move is to ensure passenger the housing sector from middlemen, the Centre’s submissions that entire passengers paying up to six times convenience and address the issue corruption and ensuring that the ben- process of promotion has come to a the stipulated amount as penalty, if of cramped compartments,” Ved eficiaries get their own home without “standstill” due to the orders passed caught travelling with overweight Prakash, Director, Information hassles,” Modi said while addressing by various high courts and the apex luggage, an official said today. and Publicity, Railway Board, said. beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri court had also ordered for “status According to the prescribed Officials said unlike at the air- Awas Yojna (PMAY) through video quo” in a similar matter in 2015. norms, a sleeper class and a second ports, where the luggage of each conference. The government said there were class passenger can carry luggage passenger is weighed, the railways He also said the housing sector is separate verdicts by the high courts weighing 40 kg and 35 kg respec- would carry out random checks being invigorated with the latest tech- of Delhi, Bombay and Punjab and tively without paying any extra among the passengers. nology. “This is enabling faster con- Haryana on the issue of reservation money and a maximum of 80 kg For example, if a passenger is struction of affordable houses for the in promotion to SC/ST employees and 70 kg respectively by paying travelling 500 km with luggage poor in towns and villages,” the prime and the apex court had also passed for the excess luggage at the parcel weighing 80 kg in the sleeper class, minister said. different orders on appeals filed would be applicable. the bench was the Centre’s chal- quo” as far as reservation in pro- office. The excess luggage would he can book his excess baggage of Modi said the focus is to ensure against those judgements. The M Nagaraj verdict had said lenge to the Delhi High Court’s motion to SC/SC employees was have to be put in the luggage van. 40 kg for Rs 109 in the luggage van. more women, ‘divyang’ (differently- “We will say you (Centre) that creamy layer concept can- August 23 last year verdict quash- concerned. “The rules were already in However, if he fails to do so abled), people from SC, ST, OBC and can go ahead with promotion in not be applied to the Scheduled ing government’s order extend- He referred to a May 17 order place; we are just enforcing them and is caught with the excess lug- minority communities get access to accordance with law,” a vacation Castes and Scheduled Tribes for ing reservation in promotion to passed by a bench headed by Justice strictly now. Passengers are gage, he will end up paying a pen- housing. bench comprising Justices Adarsh promotions in government jobs employees belonging to the Sched- Kurian Joseph in a similar matter in allowed to book and carry excess alty of Rs 654. “PMAY is linked with the dig- Kumar Goel and Ashok Bhushan like two earlier verdicts of 1992 uled Castes and Scheduled Tribes which it was said that pendency of luggage in the luggage van, up to Similarly, an AC first class pas- nity of our citizens. Due to PMAY, told Additional Solicitor General Indra Sawhney and others versus beyond five years from November petition before it shall not stand in the maximum limit, on the pay- senger can carry 70 kg of luggage employment opportunities are being (ASG) Maninder Singh, represent- Union of India (popularly called 16, 1992. the way of the Centre taking steps ment of a fee equivalent to one- for free and a maximum of 150 created for the people. ” he said. ing the Centre. Mandal Commission verdict) and At the outset, the ASG referred for promotion. and-a-half times the luggage rate. kg, after paying a fee for the addi- In the last four years, the gov- During the hearing, the ASG 2005 E V Chinnaiah versus State of to orders passed by the apex court “How the promotion is taking “If a passenger is found trav- tional 80 kg. ernment has taken a mission mode cited the case laws on the issue of Andhra Pradesh, which dealt with earlier, including a reference made place as of now?” the bench asked. elling with un-booked luggage An AC two-tier passenger can approach towards providing housing quota in promotion in government creamy layer in Other Backward to a five-judge constitution bench, Responding to the query, the weighing more than the free allow- carry 50 kg of luggage for free and for all; the prime minister said while jobs and stated that the apex court’s Classes category. and contended that one of the ASG said, “They are not. It is all ance, the excess weight will be a maximum of 100 kg by paying a addressing the beneficiaries. 2006 judgement in M Nagaraj case Singh said the petition before orders says there would be “status standstill. This is the problem”. P6 charged six times the luggage rate. fee for the excess 50 kg. CRASHED IN A FIELD IN BAREJA VILLAGE Seat sharing ‘Will respond to unprovoked Court admits to be discussed at Senior IAF officer dies in abetment to appropriate time attacks from across border’ suicide charge AKHILESH YADAV MPOST BUREAU Jaguar crash in Gujarat against Tharoor NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Nir- In today’s mala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the MPOST BUREAU A Court of Inquiry has Army would continue to respect the been ordered (by the air head- paper ongoing Ramzan ceasefire in Jammu KUTCH: An Indian Air Force quarters) to investigate the and Kashmir but asserted that no Jaguar fighter jet on Tuesday cause of the accident, he said. ... unprovoked attack from across the crashed in Gujarat’s Kutch dis- “The plane, which was on CITY border would go unanswered as the trict soon after it took off from a routine sortie, crashed near forces have been given the right to the Jamnagar airbase, killing a Bareja village,” he said. ABHAY SINGH SCRAPPED NOTES WORTH RS 1 CR SEIZED 4 hit back. senior officer who was piloting Some cows grazing in the Sitharaman, addressing a press the aircraft, a defence spokes- field were killed after being hit NEW DELHI: A court on NATION conference on the occasion of the person said. by the jet’s debris, locals said. Tuesday admitted abetment ED GRILLS P CHIDAMBARAM FOR 6 HRS 6 fourth anniversary of the NDA gov- Air Commodore San- routine training mission from The plane’s debris was to suicide charges against ernment, said the Army was given jai Chauhan, the Air Offi- Jamnagar crashed around strewn far and wide on the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor EDIT the right to respond to any cross- cer Commanding Air Force 10.30 am,” Defence spokes- outskirts of the village and car- over the 2014 death of his wife border attacks or unprovoked firing Station Jamnagar, who was person Lt Col Manish Ojha casses of the killed animals Sunanda Pushkar, saying there BEYOND PHYSICAL PROXIMITY 8 adequately. Replying to another question, the flying the deep penetration said here. were seen lying in the field, was “sufficient grounds to pro- INTERNATIONAL Notwithstanding India’s defence minister said it is not her Jaguar fighter jet died when “The pilot, Air Commo- they said.