{"id":391664,"date":"2020-12-26T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391664"},"modified":"2020-12-26T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T05:54:39","slug":"kpcl-engineers-challenge-quota-in-promotion-under-article-371j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kpcl-engineers-challenge-quota-in-promotion-under-article-371j\/","title":{"rendered":"KPCL engineers challenge quota in promotion under Article 371J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been filed before the Karnataka High Court challenging the validity of Article 371 (J) (2) (b) of the Constitution insofar as the concept of the backlog in promotional posts, consequential seniority, and retrospective promotions.<\/p>\n<p>The promotions were executed by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) to employees from Hyderabad-Karnataka (HK) region.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners, around 119 engineers of KPCL, contended that Article 371 (J) (2) (b) cannot pass the test of basic structure doctrine and required to be struck down as it is opposed to Articles 14, 15, 16 and 21 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Justice R Devdas ordered a notice to the respondents and said the promotions, already granted to 110 engineers based on KPCL\u2019s order, will be subject to the final order of the court. The petition is filed by C K Justus and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been filed before the Karnataka High Court challenging the validity of Article 371 (J) (2) (b) of the Constitution insofar as the concept of the backlog in promotional posts, consequential seniority, and retrospective promotions. The promotions were executed by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) to employees from Hyderabad-Karnataka (HK) region. The petitioners, around 119 engineers of KPCL, contended that Article 371 (J) (2) (b) cannot pass the test of basic structure doctrine and required to be struck down as it is opposed to Articles 14, 15, 16 and 21 of the Constitution. Justice R Devdas ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}