The urban development and housing Minister Madan Kaushik would chair an important meeting of the cabinet committee on reservation roster at Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday. It would be the second meeting of the committee which was constituted by the state government to look into the issue of reservation roster in the new recruitment.
The representatives of the General and OBC employee association and SC and ST employee association would also take part in the meeting. The three member committee is headed by Cabinet minister, Kaushik while Cabinet minister Suboadh Uniyal and state minister Rekha Arya are its other members.
Ahead of the crucial meeting of the committee, the President of the General and OBC employee association, Deepak Joshi said that for the first time since the creation of a separate state, a justified system of roster in government recruitment is implemented. He threatened that the association would launch an agitation if any change with the new roster is made.
It is worth mentioning here that on September 11 last year, the Uttarakhand government issued a new policy of reservation roster in government services, corporations, public enterprises and educational institutions.
In the changed system, the first five places in the roster of new recruitment were kept for candidates of general category while the sixth position was earmarked for SC candidates. In the pattern followed earlier, the first position was kept for SC candidates.
Interestingly the decision on roster was taken on the recommendation of a cabinet committee headed by Yashpal Arya. When the SC, ST organisations raised furore on the new system, Arya publically stated that he was not taken into confidence on the issue. The state government then constituted a new Cabinet committee headed by Madan Kaushik.