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The High Court of Karnataka has directed that the authorities should revisit the “procedure and criteria for declaration of KSET results” and guarantee that the regularisation of preservation arsenic mandated successful the Karnataka Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (Reservation and Appointment etc.) Act, 1990 is followed portion declaring the results and certifying the candidates arsenic eligible, subject-wise and category-wise.
Justice R. Devdas issued the absorption to the Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) Centre, Mysore University, and the University Grants Commission (UGC) portion partially allowing a petition filed by Gopala A. of Bengaluru, who appeared for the Karnataka State Entrance Test (KSET) successful the twelvemonth 2021 and directing the authorities to state the petitioner arsenic palmy and contented a certificate of SET to him.
The tribunal issued the absorption portion noticing that the archetypal 2 steps prescribed successful the “procedure and criteria for declaration of KSET results” bash travel the request of recognition of slots and for providing reservation. However, the tribunal pointed out, the 3rd measurement gives a spell by to the request of instrumentality successful the substance of reservation, arsenic prescribed successful the Act of 1990.
“The 3rd measurement should, therefore, beryllium replaced by pursuing the roster constituent prescribed by the State of Karnataka... Following the roster would beryllium a elemental solution for providing preservation successful the substance of certifying candidates, subject-wise,” the tribunal said.
The look prescribed by the UGC for SET does not instrumentality attraction of the statutory requirements of preservation enabled by the State of Karnataka nether 1990 Act, the tribunal noted.
Though certification successful SET is not the lawsuit of assignment to immoderate posts, nevertheless, since it is the process of certifying a campaigner arsenic eligible to use to the posts of lecturer/assistant/professorship, the law mandate adopted successful the 1990 Act providing preservation has to beryllium applied successful this discourse also, the tribunal said.
