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Punjab Civil Services (Reservation of Posts for Women) Rules, 2020

Published vide Notification No. G.S.R. 87/Const./Arts.309 and 15/2020, dated 21.10.2020

Last Updated 2nd January, 2021 [pu1009]

Rules

(a) "establishment" means any office of the State Government, a local authority or a statutory authority constituted under any State Law for the time being in force, or a Board or Corporation in which not less than fifty-one per cent of the paid up share of capital is held by the Government of the State of Punjab and includes a university or college affiliated to the university, primary and secondary schools and other educational institutions, which are owned by the State Government and also includes an establishment in public sector; and

(b) "establishment in public sector" means any industry, trade, business or occupation owned, controlled or managed by, -

(i) the State Government ; and

(ii) Government Company as defined in sub-section (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013, in which not less than fifty-one per cent of the paid up share capital is held by the Government of the State of Punjab.

(ii) For the purposes of this rule, "horizontal and compartmentalised reservation" means reservation within each watertight category, namely, Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections and Open Category.

(i) firstly, to fill the quota of the Open Category in order of merit and thereafter;

(ii) secondly, to fill up each of the vertical reservation quotas and thereafter;

(iii) thirdly, to find out how many women belonging to specific vertical reservation have been selected on the above basis and thereafter;

(iv) if the number of women candidates in each vertical is equal to or more than the thirty three percent reservation quota for women, then there shall be no further selection towards the reservation quota for women.

Step 1. - Candidates shall have to be first listed in accordance with merit, from out of the successful eligible candidates, in their respective vertical categories.

Step 2. - As such, thirty posts are reserved for Schedule Castse (of which the quota for women is ten), Schedule Caste candidates shall have to be first listed in accordance with merit, from out of the successful eligible candidates. If such list of thirty candidates contains ten Schedule Caste women candidates, then there is no need to disturb the list by including any further Schedule Caste women candidates. On the other hand, if the list of thirty Schedule Caste candidates contains only eight women candidates, then the next two Schedule Caste women candidates in accordance with merit, will have to be included in the list and corresponding number of candidates from the bottom of such list shall have to be deleted, so as to ensure that the final list of thirty selected Schedule Caste candidates contains ten women Schedule Caste candidates. But if the list of thirty Schedule Caste candidates contains more than ten women candidates, selected on own merit, all of them will continue in the list and there is no question of deleting the excess women candidates on the ground that Schedule Caste women have been selected in excess of the specified internal quota of ten.

Step 3. - Repeat this exercise for each vertical to fill vacancies.

It is clarified that if there is a shortfall of women in any watertight vertical category e.g. two Schedule Caste women (above) are not available in the list then,-

(i) the vacancy shall not be made available to women of any other vertical category i.e. Open Category Women or Other Backward Class women; and

(ii) as such, the overall reservation of thirty three percent in favour of women, may be satisfied or may not be satisfied.

Annexure 'A'

(See rule 4)