Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes

(1) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes, shall be at the stage of direct recruitment at the following percentages of the total number of vacancies in a cadre, namely:— (i) Scheduled Castes: sixteen percent; (ii) Scheduled Tribes: twenty percent; (iii) Other Backward Classes: fourteen percent. (2) The State Government may, by notification, modify the percentages specified in sub-section (1) for any class of posts or services in any establishment, in accordance with the population of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes in the State. (3) (a) The recruitment to the vacancies shall be in accordance with such roster or methodology as may be prescribed. (b) If any vacancy reserved for any category cannot be filled up due to non-availability of a candidate from that category, it shall be filled in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that if in any year, the number of vacancies reserved for any category of persons under sub-section (1) are not filled up, such vacancies shall be carried forward to such number of subsequent years as may be prescribed; (c) If in any year, the number of vacancies reserved for any category of persons under sub-section (1) cannot be filled up, the appointing authority may fill the vacancies by other candidates after carrying forward the vacancies in the manner prescribed, and the carried forward vacancies shall not be filled in such year. Provided that in any recruitment year, the number of normal reserved vacancies and the carried forward reserved vacancies together shall not exceed fifty percent of the total number of vacancies.