Alleging discrimination in the departmental promotion process in the Public Works Department, the Karnataka Government SC/ST Employees Association has petitioned Water Resources Minister Govind Karjol to exert pressure on Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to prevent injustice to the employees hailing from the community.
Memorandum
In a memorandum given to him on Wednesday, the association pointed out at the postponement of the departmental promotion committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday to draw the list of Superintending Engineers eligible to be promoted as chief engineers. “This was done using political pressure to deny Scheduled Caste engineers their promotion and this will result in many SC superintending engineers nearing retirement to superannuate without reaching the chief engineer position,” the memorandum said.
