THE Supreme Court on Friday refused to lay down the yardstick for determining the inadequacy of representation for granting reservation in promotions for Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe candidates in government jobs while reiterating the need for empirical data to arrive at the decision.
However, the data so collected must not be for a group in a service but for a cadre in which promotions have to be made, a three-judge bench said. A cadre is part of a group.
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