Overview
- The Haryana Cabinet, which met Wednesday in Gurugram, approved the draft bill and called a one-day Assembly sitting on April 27 to table it.
- The proposal lifts the share of clerk posts filled by promotion from Group D staff to 30% from 20%.
- It also directs the government to frame rules to promote common-cadre Group D employees who have more than five years of service.
- A 5% ex gratia reservation would be written into the clerical recruitment rules for these posts.
- The government plans to move a censure motion against opposition parties over the Lok Sabha defeat of the Constitution (131st Amendment) on women's reservation.