No.360111612009-Estt.(Res.)
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
New Delhi, the 23rd December, 2009
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in autonomous bodiesl institutions etc
The undersigned is directed to say that instructions were issued vide Ministry of Home Affairs' O.M. No. 39/40/74-SCT (I) dated 30.9.1974 that the autonomous bodiesl institutions, which receive grant-in-aid from the Government of lndia, would make suitable provision in the relevant Statutes or in the Articles of Association of the respective bodies to provide reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in services under their control. After introduction of reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) on 8.9.1993, the autonomous bodies etc. were expected to make provision in this regard also.
It has been brought to the notice of this Department that some of the autonomous bodiesl institutions have not made suitable provision about reservation in their Statutes1 Articles of Association.
2. All the Ministriesl Departments etc. are requested toensure that suitable provisions of reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs are made in the Statutes1 Articles of Association of all the autonomous bodiesl institutions under them and such provisions are implemented scrupulously.
