Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Thursday put an embargo on promotions for staff across all state departments till further orders after concerns were raised over compliance of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe reservation norms.
Soon after chief minister Hemant Soren gave directives in this regard, the state personnel department issued an order to all the departments, including in the districts, and said the order will be effective immediately.
Earlier in the day, Soren attended a meeting of the Jharkhand assembly’s special committee constituted under the aegis of Chaibasa MLA Deepak Birua to review the actual status of compliance of SC/ST reservation norms in the state government jobs amid concerns raised by several tribal MLAs in the past.