‘High score & upgrade to general category won’t erode quota perks’

KOLKATA: Even if a campaigner nether the reserved class scored higher than the cut-off marks and was upgraded to wide category, s/he would proceed to bask benefits of the erstwhile category, Calcutta precocious tribunal held Tuesday.The directive came aft an SSC candidate, who made it to the archetypal database of the 2025 SLST exam, moved precocious tribunal to reconstruct her SC presumption adjacent if she was upgraded to wide category.SSC elder counsel Kalyan Bandyopadhyay sought HC’s support to upgrade the campaigner to the wide class contending that different SC campaigner with little marks would miss the accidental of being considered if the petitioner wanted to reconstruct her status.

Bandyopadhyay argued that the thought of preservation was meant for the payment of a assemblage and not for an individual.Justice Amrita Sinha, however, noted that the petitioner had marked herself arsenic a reserved class campaigner portion filling the signifier and had submitted Rs 200, a interest meant for that category. The justice referred to her Nov 27 order, successful which the tribunal had held that erstwhile a candidate’s class was final, authorities could not “change it suo motu”.