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Jitendra Singh takes dig at Sonia, says PMO’s strings no more pulled from outside under Modi

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Union minister advocates reservation for STs in pvt sector

NEW DELHI: Union Minister Faggan Singh Kulaste today advocated reservation for Scheduled Tribes in private sector and increasing the ST quota in government jobs.

Kulaste, who is the Union Minister of State for Welfare and Family Planning, also said that issue of reservation should be brought under Ninth Schedule of the constitution, which will help the topic escape from judicial review.

However, Jual Oram, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs batted for a “middle path” saying reservation alone cannot solve the problems and empowerment of tribals is required.

“There should be a provision of inducting members of the Schedule Tribes in the Board of Directors of banks. At this point of time this provision does not exist,” Kulaste said.

He said there should also be a provision of having certain level reservation for vice-chancellors in state and central universities.

Kulaste was speaking at a seminar on Workshop on reservation in politics, education and service matters.

The workshop saw emergence of divergent views on the topic with some experts advocating increasing the scope of reservation in private sector.

Kulaste said the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government deserves credit for extending reservations to schedule castes, schedule tribes and other backward classes, both at the Central and state level.

Oram said over a period of time, reservations in Parliament for STs have increased from 41 to 47 and from 532 to 544 in State Legislatures. (AGENCIES)

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SC raps Govt for delay in appointments to higher judiciary

NEW DELHI: “You cannot bring the entire institution (of judiciary) to a grinding halt,” the Supreme Court today told the government while expressing anguish over the delay in appointment of judges in high courts despite recommendations made by the collegium in this regard.

“Courts rooms are locked down. Do you want to lock down the judiciary,” a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said, adding “you cannot bring the entire institution to a grinding halt.”

Maintaining that the appointment process “cannot be stalled” due to non-finalisation of the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), it criticised the tardy progress in processing files pertaining to judges’ appointment and even warned that it may summon the Secretaries of the PMO and the Ministry of Law and Justice to ascertain the factual position.

“There should not be any deadlock. You have committed to process the files for appointment of judges without finalisation of the MoP. Finalisation of MoP has nothing to do with the appointment process in the judiciary,” the bench, which also included Justices D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao, said.

Referring to the deficiency of judges in various high courts, it said that in Karnataka high court, several court rooms were locked because there were no judges.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre, said that non-finalisation of the MoP was one of the issues and assured the bench that more progress will be seen in the near future on the appointment of judges.

The court fixed the matter for further hearing on November 11.

The Centre had on September 14 told the apex court that there was “no blame game” or “logjam” in appointments and transfer of judges for higher judiciary but blamed the high courts for “pretty much delaying” in starting the process.

Earlier, the apex court had said it would not tolerate “logjam in judges’ appointment” and would intervene to “fasten accountability as the justice delivery system is collapsing”.

The bench had said that if the government had reservation about any name, it could always come back to the collegium.

The Attorney General had also pleaded that no notice

should be issued for the time being on the PIL filed by 1971 war veteran Lieutenant Colonel Anil Kabotra on the issue, saying he would get back with the facts and figures.

The PIL has referred to the huge backlog of cases and vacancies in the judiciary and sought a direction to the authorities in this regard.

Kabotra, in his PIL, has sought a direction to Ministry of Law and Justice to take “immediate steps” to facilitate filling up of existing vacancies in the judiciary across the country.

He has also sought a direction to consider and implement 245th report of the Law Commission on reforms in judiciary and to increase the judges’ strength and infrastructural facilities in courts in the country.

The plea has further said “the respondent (Centre) is duty-bound to facilitate filling up of existing judges strength across the country and to consider increasing the same substantially in terms of the Law Commission’s report.” (AGENCIES)

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