Karnataka Government on Wednesday decided in favour of 1% horizontal reservations to be given to the transgender community in government jobs, after it did not receive any objections to the draft notification in so far as the amendment to Rule 9 is concerned within the stipulated time.
The State of Karnataka issued a notification with Draft rules namely Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 on May 13 proposing to amend Rule 9 by inserting Sub Rule 1 D providing 1 % vacancies to be filled in any post or service by the state government from among the transgender candidates in each category of general, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and in each of the categories among the Other Backward Classes.
In the case of Sangama v. State, WP No. 8511 of 2020, Division bench of Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, CJ and Suraj Govindaraj, J. was informed by the State that Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms State has taken steps to amend the Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 and subsequently, on July 6 amended it by inserting sub-rule (1D) to the Rules which reads as follows:
“Notwithstanding anything contained in the rules of recruitment specially made in respect of any service or post, in all direct recruitment one percentage of vacancies set apart for that method in each of the categories of General Merit, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and in each of the categories among Other Backward Classes shall, subject to any general instructions that may be issued by the Government regarding the manner of appointment, be filled from among transgender candidates:
Provided that, every Appointing Authority shall provide a separate column of “Others” along with male gender and female gender in the application for recruitment to any category of Group-A, B, C or D posts for the convenience of transgender persons. The Recruitment Authority or the Appointing Authority shall not discriminate a transgender person while making selection of appointment to any category of post.
Provided further that, if sufficient number of eligible transgender persons are not available, to the extent of one per cent, the unfilled vacancies shall be filled by male or female candidates, as the case may be, belonging to the same category.
Explanation: For the purpose of this sub-rule a Transgender Person shall have the same meaning as defined in Clause (k) of Section 2 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (Central Act 40 of 2019)”.
Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.
Well done Karnataka.