Supreme Court Clarifies Quota vs Merit in Government Jobs
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The Supreme Court has made an important clarification on government recruitment and the reservation system.
The Court has clearly stated that the “open” or “unreserved” category is not a quota reserved for General category candidates. It is an open pool where all candidates compete purely on merit.
This means that if a reserved category candidate scores above the General category cutoff—without using relaxations like age or fee concessions—then that candidate must be counted against unreserved seats, not their reserved quota.
A Bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma reaffirmed that merit cannot be ignored simply because a candidate belongs to a reserved category. The reserved quota must remain available for the next most deserving candidate within that category.
The ruling overturns a 2020 Kerala High Court decision related to Airports Authority of India’s 2013 recruitment for Junior Assistant (Fire Service) posts, where meritorious reserved candidates were earlier excluded from the general list.
The Supreme Court grounded its decision in Article 14 (equality before law) and Article 16 (equality of opportunity in public employment), reinforcing that fairness and merit must work together—not against each other.
This judgment is not about reducing reservations.
It is about correctly applying merit within the constitutional framework.
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