Rajya Sabha passes 117 constitutional ammendment bill for reservation to the promotion of sc and st

The Rajya Sabha on
Monday (December
17, 2012) passed the
Constitution (One
Hundred Seventeenth
Amendment) Bill,
2012. The Bill
proposes to amend
the Article 16 (4A) of
the Constitution of
India. The existing
Article 16(4A)
provides for
reservation in
promotion to the
Scheduled Castes
(SCs) and the
Scheduled Tribes
(STs) which are not
adequately
represented in the
Govt. services. The
proposed amendment
would amend Article
16(4A) in such a
manner that it would
obviate the need of
collection of
quantifiable data
about adequacy of
representation and
backwardness of the
class for reservation
in promotion to the
SCs and the STs