Rural weightage: number of candidates selected to be made known soon

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, OCT. 22. The Government will soon start an exercise to arrive at the number of candidates selected and appointed under the rural weightage rule with the Supreme Court decision quashing two directions of a Division Bench of the High Court, which had saved the selection and appointments during the pendency of the appeals, though it had upheld an order of the Single Bench invalidating the rule.

This was stated here on Monday by the Law Minister, Mr. D.B.Chandre Gowda, who said that he had just received the copy of the order of the Supreme Court and had asked the Advocate General to study it.

Mr. Gowda told presspersons that the number of appointments made since November 1998, which had to be reviewed now, was a little over 12,000. A large number of appointments were in the Police and the Education departments.

Mr. Gowda, who is a member of the Cabinet sub-committee to formulate a transfer policy, said the committee had favoured a committee system for each department at the State-level headed by the minister concerned and comprising, among others, the secretary and director of the department in respect of Class I officers.

Similarly, there would be district-level committees headed by the deputy commissioner, and also an intermediary committee in between the State and district-level committees. The committees would work under the guidelines approved by the Cabinet.

The Police Department was in favour of a separate committee to be headed by a superintendent of police.

The committee had also gone into the question of bringing the staff of the Legislature under the purview of the Lok Ayukta and Upa Lok Ayukta. The Lok Ayukta had made certain suggestions and some of them had been accepted. The matter would be taken up by the Cabinet, he said.

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