AGARTALA, July 27 (TIWN): The special leave petition (SLP) by the state government, where the Tripura High Court has directed the government to maintain the 50 per cent reservation restriction in promotion of officers and employees, to be produced before the supreme court of India on Monday.

The case SLP (c) No:  19765/2015 to be produced in front of bench of Justice Manab B Lukur and Justice S A Bodar at Supreme Court on Monday.

Eminent lawyer Kiran Suri will represent Tripura general officers and employees welfare society in the Supreme Court on Monday.  He will be assisted by new lawyer of the state Arijit Bhowmik

Earlier the petitioner General Employees and Officers' Welfare Society of Tripura's lawyer Kiran Suri said in the HC," In 2006 the Supreme Court had said that a state was not bound to make reservation for SCs and STs in matters of promotions if given adequate representation in each and every department and categories of employees."

According to this direction," Department and post wise quantification of reservation (31 per cent for SCs and 17 per cent for STs in case of Tripura) has to be made available before proceeding for any promotion," but Tripura did not follow it for long.

As a result, general category employees in different status of service in various departments have been deprived of promotion and the state government, in the name of reservation, is giving facilities to the SCs and STs, she pointed out.

In the mean time, the state government has already allotted 80% of the promotional posts to SCs and STs and mere 20% are allotted to unreserved category, the petitioner alleged.

Allegedly, the state government has failed to provide the department and post wise quantification of SC and ST employees and it is found that the Tripura government has crossed the reservation limit in most of the cases," 

It is to be mention here that a Division Bench of Gauhati High Court, headed by Justice I.A Ansari, had imposed a stay order on rule of the Reservation Rules of the state in response to a petition filed by General Officers and Welfare Society in June 2012.

In the mean time, the state government has already allotted 80% of the promotional posts to SCs and STs and mere 20% are allotted to unreserved category, the petitioner alleged.