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4. All Ministries/Department are requested to bring these instruction to the notice of all
authorities under them.
Ministry of Home Affairs OM No 16/8/69-Estt. (SCT), dated 31 st October, 1969 to all
Ministries etc. According to para 2 (c) of this Ministry‟s office Memorandum No 1/12/67-Estt.
(C), dated the 11 th Jul 1968, while there is no reservation for Scheduled castes and Scheduled
tribes in appointments made by promotion on the basis of seniority subject to fitness, cases
involving supersession of Scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes Officers in Class I and II
appointments are required to be submitted for prior approval to the Minister or Deputy Minister
concerned and cases involving supersession of Officers belonging to these categories in Class
III and IV appointment are required to be reported within a month to the Minister or Deputy
Minister concerned for information. It has been brought to the notice of this Ministry that some
cases of supersession of Scheduled Caste/Tribes Officers were not submitted or reported to the
Minister as required under the instructions referred to above. It is, therefore, requested that all
the Ministries and departments may enjoin on the authorities under their control to ensure that
the prescribed procedure in this regard is strictly observed. The Liaison Officers who have been
nominated in the Ministries/Departments and in the Offices under the Heads of Departments for
the purpose of ensuring proper compliance of the orders relating to reservation of Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes may specially watch proper implementation of the aforesaid orders
in the offices under their charge.
6. Relaxation of Standards in Departments Competitive Examination and
Confirmation Examinations.
Copy of Department of Personnel OM No 8/12/69-Estt. (SCT), dated
23 rd December, 1970 to all Ministries etc.
Attention of the Ministry of Finance etc. is invited to Ministry of Home Affairs OM No.
1/1/70-Estt. (SCT), dated 25 th July, 1970 in which it has been provided that in the case of direct
recruitment, whether by examination or otherwise, if sufficient number of Scheduled
caste/Scheduled Tribes candidates are not available on the basis of the general standard to fill all
the vacancies reserved for them, candidates belonging to these communities may be selected to
fill up the remaining vacancies reserved for them provided they are not found unfit for
appointment to such post or posts. A question has been raised whether relaxation in the
qualifying standards could be granted to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes candidates on the
same basis in promotions made through departmental competitive examinations and in
departmental confirmation examinations where such examinations re-prescribed to determine
the suitability of candidates for confirmations. The matter has been carefully considered and it
has been decided that in promotions confirmations made through such examinations, Scheduled
Caste/Scheduled Tribes candidates who have not acquired the general qualification standard in
such examinations could also be considered for promotion/confirmations. In other words, the
qualifying standards in these examinations could be relaxed in favour of scheduled
castes/scheduled tribes candidates in keeping with the above criterion.
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