Ensure availability of candidates from particular caste-category before fixing reservation for posts of president and vice-president in municipal councils: Karnataka High Court
The Hindu
The High Court of Karnataka has directed the State government to secure proper data about members elected to municipal councils and ascertain availability of candidates belonging to various caste categories before fixing reservation for the posts of presidents and vice-presidents in these councils.
The High Court of Karnataka has directed the State government to secure proper data about members elected to municipal councils and ascertain availability of candidates belonging to various caste categories before fixing reservation for the posts of presidents and vice-presidents in these councils.
Such a process is essential to ensure that posts of president and vice-president would not remain vacant for want of candidates in the particular caste category to which the posts were reserved, the court said.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj issued the direction after noticing that in five town municipalities in the State the election to the posts of president/vice-president could not be held owing to non-availability of women among the elected members from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories.
The court pointed out that the issue of non-availability of women members belonging to SC, ST categories had cropped up as reservation for the posts of president and vice-president in 117 town municipal councils was fixed without collecting proper data of elected members to these councils.
The issue of non-availability of women among elected members from SC, ST categories came to the notice of the court while dealing with the petitions filed by Veena M. of Annigeri in Dharwad district and Altaf Kharori Mohiddin of Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district.
The petitioners questioned the action of the State government in changing the reservation fixed for SC-Women or ST-Women for the posts of president in the town municipalities of Annigeri and Bhatkal to SC, ST categories as there was no woman elected members from these two categories.
During the hearing on these two petitions, the government said that a similar issue had cropped up total in five town municipal councils and hence the government changed reservation from SC/ST (Woman) to open category so that vertical reservation of the post remained intact and only horizontal reservation was changed owing to non-availability of women members.
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