general category candidates by applying rule of reservation as provided in Rule 12 of the Tamil Nadu Highways Engineering Rules, I do not find ... respectively. Rule 12 of the Tamil Nadu Highways Engineering Service Rules provides for Reservation of appointments. As per Rule 12, the rule of reservation
Supreme Court 1189) and this principle is known as Catch Up rule.
11. Some of the persons, who had similarly placed like that ... representation to the appellants, dated 7.4.2007 to apply the principle of Catch Up rules while recasting the seniority as directed in the Government Order
next year. It is
true that other universities have a catch-up rule/flipped semester rule, and
the students do not waste a full year ... similarly situated students at several other Universities are
subject to a catch-up rule, and they do not need to waste a full year. Even
N.Santosh Kumar vs The Tamil Nadu Public Service ...
Author: V.Ramasubramanian
Bench: V.Ramasubramanian
what came to be known in popular terms as the
"catch up rule" enabling the senior general category candidates
who got promoted later ... above the
roster point promotee who got promoted earlier.
(ii) The catch up rule formulated in Virpal was approved by a
three member Bench
said Articles with certain riders. On the
concept of ‘Catch-up Rule’ and consequential Seniority,
this Court held as under:-
“79. Reading the above judgments ... view
that the concept of “catch-up” rule and “consequential
seniority” are judicially evolved concepts to control the
extent of reservation. The source of these
petitioners batch is concerned and based on
such revised seniority applying catch up rule, to approve panels for
promotion to the categories of District Registrar ... being considered on merits.
Hence, it was contended that the catch up rule must be followed and the
petitioners must be given their appropriate seniority
posts exclusively for SC/ST communities, which is otherwise known as catch up rule/backlog vacancies. By the 81st amendment made to the Constitution, Article
test of identity. As stated hereinabove, the concept of the catch-up rule and consequential seniority are not constitutional requirements. They are not implicit
advantage of the above said rulings contrary to the rules and settled principles of law. Therefore, the above rulings are not applicable to the facts ... with respect to inter-se seniority and catch up rule. The above rulings related to seniority in a particular category or class and the same
