Article 335, 336 of Constitution of India 1949

What are the Claims of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to services and posts? What are the Special provision for Anglo-Indian community in certain services? Article 335 and 336 of Constitution of India, 1949

Claims of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to services and posts and Special provision for Anglo-Indian community in certain services are defined under Article 335 and 336 of Constitution of India 1949. Provisions under these Articles are:

 

 

Article 335 of Constitution of India "Claims of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to services and posts"

The claims of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be taken into consideration, consistently with the maintenance of efficiency of administration, in the making of appointments to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State.

Article 336 of Constitution of India "Special provision for Anglo-Indian community in certain services"

(1) During the first two years after the commencement of this Constitution, appointments of members of the Anglo-Indian community to posts in the railway, customs, postal and telegraph services of the Union shall be made on the same basis as immediately before the fifteenth day of August, 1947.

During every succeeding period of two years, the number of posts reserved for the members of the said community in the said services shall, as nearly as possible, be less by ten per cent than the numbers so reserved during the immediately preceding period of two years:

Provided that at the end of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution all such reservations shall cease.

(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall bar the appointment of members of the Anglo-Indian community to posts other than, or in addition to, those reserved for the community under that clause if such members are found qualified for appointment on merit as compared with the members of other communities.