SHSS demand promotions as per Supreme Court order
Vinod Kumar Gupta, 28-Apr-2012 .

SHSS demand promotions as per Supreme Court order
Saturday April 28 2012
Lucknow

Sarvjan Hitay Sanrakshan Samiti (SHSS) has demanded promotions in all the state government departments should be made immediately as per decision of Supreme Court of India.
The Supreme Court, on Friday upheld the Allahabad high court's decision to scrap the policy of reservations in promotions introduced by the Mayawati government. The Allahabad high court on January 4, 2011 had dubbed it "unconstitutional" and struck it down following at least 50 petitions by employees associations from across the state. The Mayawati government had then moved a special leave petition in the Supreme Court following which the high court order was stayed.
Shaliender Dubey Chairman of Samity welcoming the decision of Supreme court of India and said that this decision will reestablish the principle of seniority cum merit and lead to all round development of state. He demanded that all those retired employees who were denied promotion by UP Government in last five years should be given the benefit of notion promotion.
Dubey said that the decision will benefit nearly 18 lakh UP government employees -- mainly of the general and OBC category -- who have been waiting for their promotions for the past five years.
Supreme Court in its order said that the appeals arising out of the final judgment of Division
Bench at Allahabad are allowed and the impugned order is set aside.
The Supreme Court order said that in the ultimate analysis held that Section 3(7) of the 1994 Act and Rule 8A of the 2007 Rules are ultra virus as they run counter to the dictum in M. Nagaraj (supra).