Women in Uttarakhand got 30 per cent horizontal reservation in the government job as the state Governor Lt Gen Gurmit Singh (retd) on Wednesday gave his consent to a Bill providing the quota to domiciled women of the state.
With the governor's consent to the Bill, it has become an Act, an official said here on Wednesday.
Uttarakhand Public Services (Horizontal Reservation for Women) Bill, 2022 was passed by the state assembly on November 29 last year.
CM hails the bill
Stating the objective of the Bill at the time of its introduction in the state assembly, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had said that women of the state live in adverse conditions and their standard of living is below the women of other states.
"The Bill seeks to provide 30 per cent reservation to them in government jobs in order to ensure social justice, equality of opportunity, improvement in living standards and gender equality in public planning," Dhami had said.
The Bill passed legal hurdle in November
Earlier, on November 25, the Supreme Court lifted the stay imposed by the Uttarakhand High Court on the government order which provided 30 per cent reservation to women domiciled in the State of Uttarakhand in state services. A notice was issued to the Respondent by a bench of Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice V. Ramasubramanium, seeking a reply to the Special leave petition filed by the state of Uttarakhand.
The State filed the plea assailing the interim order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court staying the 2006 order of the State of Uttarakhand. The High Court had stayed the GO on the prima facie view that the government order was contrary to the mandate of Article 16(2) of the Constitution of India. A bench comprising of Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Ramesh Chandra Khulbe passed an interim order which was challenged by the state.
(With PTI input)
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