UPSC candidates have no right to cadre of choice: SC How is Cadre allocated? – Free PDF Download

Cadre Allocation Policy UPSC

• A successful civil services aspirant has no right to be allocated a cadre or place of appointment of his choice as a candidate for the all India service opts to serve anywhere in the country with “eyes wide open,” the Supreme Court said.
• The historic judgment in the Mandal case was also referred to by the court to observe that the candidate belonging to the SC/ST or OBC, if found suitable by the UPSC for selection on merits under general category, “shall be appointed against unreserved vacancies.
• A bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian set aside the verdict of the High Court asking the centre to grant Kerala cadre to the woman IAS officer.
• The bench also held that if a candidate, hailing from reserved Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), or Other Backward Class (OBC), does not take benefit of quota and gets selected in the general category then later he or she cannot take recourse of reservation for getting cadre or place of appointment of choice.
• The allocation of cadre is not a matter of right.
• It was held that a selected candidate has a right to be considered for appointment to the IAS but he has no such right to be allocated to a cadre of his choice or his home state.
• As stated above, allotment of cadre is an incidence of service.
• She then moved the Ernakulam Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal which directed the centre to allot and accommodate her against “the outsider OBC vacancy in the Maharashtra cadre by virtue of her merit over the candidate already identified and allotted the Maharashtra cadre”.
• Both the centre and the IAS officer challenged the verdict in the Kerala High Court which allowed the plea of the government challenging the direction of the tribunal to accommodate the IAS officer in the Maharashtra cadre.
• The bench examined the question of whether consultation in respect of allocation of cadre is required to be done with the state from which the candidate belongs or with the state to which the candidate is being allocated.

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