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Mumbai: Labourers get reservations for forest guard posts
Updated On: 22 March, 2024 05:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
The division bench ruled in favour of 10 per cent parallel reservation for the forest labourers
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A forest labourer driving a buggy at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the individual will now be eligible for reservation for Group C & D posts
In a landmark case, the division bench of Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT), Mumbai bench recently pronounced a verdict in favour of daily wage forest labourers, who sought direction to avail 10 per cent parallel reservation for appointment by direct recruitment in response to a recent advertisement to fill in over six thousand posts across Maharashtra.
The case
“The six individuals (applicants)were employed as daily-wage forest labourers across various territorial areas under the chief conservators of forests and were living in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Pune, and Nanded districts of Maharashtra. They requested permission to utilise the 10 per cent parallel reservation outlined in the Government Resolution (GR), Revenue and Forest Department, dated October 16, 2012, for their recruitment to Group-C positions as forest guards, as advertised on June 8, 2023, by the principal chief conservator of forests, said Advocate Rajeshwar Panchal.
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