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50. In other words, appointments to State and Subordinate services were made only as per a 100 point roster during the period from 22.6.1990 to 29.4.2009. Though the actual amendment introducing the 200 point roster was made under G.O.Ms.No.55 P&AR Department dated 8.4.2009 with effect from 29.4.2009, the 200 point roster had already been introduced by way of Executive Instructions under G.O.Ms.No.241 P&AR Department dated 29.10.2007. Since the 100 point roster held the field for about 19 years, from June 1990 to April 2009, an amendment was made to Rule 22(c) by inserting an "Explanation". By virtue of this explanation, it was mandated that the vacancies arising on and from 29.4.2009 should be filled up as per Schedule-III in a 200 point roster and that all selections for appointment shall be started afresh from serial number 1 (or roster point 1) in the said Schedule-III with effect on and from the said date.
(v) After first allotting the top 15 (the most meritorious) candidates to the roster points intended for General Turn, the Service Commission will segregate and group the remaining candidates, into the reserved categories to which they belong.
(vi) For instance, 10 vacancies are allotted to the Scheduled Castes, within the first 50 roster points namely from point No.1 to point No.50. These points are at serial numbers 2, 6, 12, 16, 22, 26, 32, 36, 42 and 50. Among these points, roster point Nos.2 and 32 are intended for Arunthathiyars on preferential basis. Therefore, after allotting the top 15 candidates against the roster points for the General Turn (without reference to the community), the Service Commission will segregate the remaining candidates into Scheduled Castes, Most Backward Classes, Backward Classes other than Muslims and Backward Class Muslims. Thereafter, the candidates in each of those groups will be arranged in an order of merit inter-se. For instance, 10 Scheduled Caste candidates, who are entitled to be allotted against the roster points available within the first 50 points, will be arranged in the order of merit among themselves. The first of them will go to roster point No.2, the second will go to roster point No.6, the third will go to roster point No.12 and so on and so forth. But, if there is a candidate belonging to Scheduled Caste Arunthathiyar, he will be allotted against roster point No.2, in view of the fact that the said roster point is intended for them. A more meritorious candidate among the Scheduled Castes, may be allotted only against roster point No.6.
76. Therefore, what is actually required to be done by the Public Service Commission is (i) first to prepare a merit list and (ii) to make allotments from the list, to the roster points, by following the steps indicated in paragraph 67 above. The allotment against roster points serves two purposes namely (a) it ensures that the Rule of Reservation is followed and (b) it creates a record to show the roster point from which the next recruitment is to commence. Say for instance, if the first recruitment has taken place for roster point Nos. 1 to 50 immediately after the amendment of the Rule on 29.4.2009, the next recruitment will have to commence from roster point No.51.
77. Keeping in mind the above legal aspect, if we come back to the case on hand, it could be seen that the recruitment under the Notification dated 10.07.1999, was for appointment to 210 posts of Assistant Engineers in the Public Works Department and to 269 posts of Assistant Engineers in the Highways Department. At that time, the 200 point roster had not come in to vogue. Therefore, the recruitment was under the 100 point roster.
78. A look at G.O.Ms.No.104, Highways Department dated 19.06.2000, by which the Government approved the select list of 269 candidates for appointment in the Highways Department, would show that the recruitment actually started from the 41st turn in the 100 point roster under Schedule-III. Consequently, about 60 candidates were allotted from roster point Nos.41 to roster point No.100. The next batch of 100 candidates were allotted from roster point Nos.1 to 100. The third batch of 100 candidates were allotted from roster point Nos. 1 to 100 and the last batch of 9 candidates were allotted from roster point Nos. 1 to 9.