Supreme Court introduces reservation for SC/ST candidates in administrative posts

For the primary time within the historical past of the nation, the Supreme Courtroom has launched a reservation coverage for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) class in direct recruitment and promotions throughout its administrative posts.

As per a round issued by the Apex Courtroom on June 24, the Mannequin Reservation Roster and Register, titled Res. Roster/01/2025, outlined a 200-point reservation framework in compliance with Rule 4A of the Supreme Courtroom Officers and Servants (Circumstances of Service and Conduct) Guidelines, 1961 and the DoPT’s tips issued in 1997.

The coverage, which got here into impact on June 23, 2025, allotted 15 % reservation for Scheduled Castes and seven.5 % for Scheduled Tribes, marking a complete of 30 SC and 15 ST earmarked positions inside each 200 sanctioned posts.

As per the 167-page doc, for every put up, an in depth point-based breakdown would set out the precise serial quantity the place an SC or ST emptiness arose, calculated towards the sanctioned cadre power.

Reservation could be offered for a number of administrative posts within the courtroom, together with Senior Private Assistant (94 sanctioned posts: 14 SC, 6 ST, 74 UR); Assistant Librarian (20 posts: 3 SC, 1 ST); Junior Courtroom Assistant (437 posts: 65 SC, 32 ST, 340 UR); Junior Courtroom Assistant-cum-Junior Programmer (20 posts: 3 SC, 1 ST); Junior Courtroom Attendant (600 posts: reservation distributed over greater than 200 serialised entries); and Chamber Attendant (105 posts; SC 16, 8 ST, 85 UR).

Every roster would strictly observe a fractional entitlement to make sure compliance. For instance, within the Junior Courtroom Assistant cadre, the seventh, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty seventh, and so forth posts have been earmarked for SC candidates, whereas ST vacancies seem on the 14th, twenty eighth, fortieth factors and so forth. Every designation’s roster has been uniquely structured to replicate its particular cadre dimension.

Alongside rosters, Half II of the doc included Preliminary Reservation Registers for every put up. These are tabulated appointment logs capturing the reservation standing of every crammed put up, enabling monitoring of real-time compliance. These registers perform as dwell paperwork to be up to date upon every recruitment cycle.

The June 24 round has been circulated amongst all Supreme Courtroom staff and registrars, directing the employees to entry the uploaded roster and register on Supnet, the courtroom’s inside community.

Any objections referring to inaccuracies have to be routed to the Registrar (Recruitment), offering a proper channel for redress, it stated.