Overview

• In a written reply, minister Jitendra Singh said the posts were single-cadre appointments, so quotas do not apply under the PGIMER vs Faculty Association ruling.
• Lateral entrants were hired on contract or deputation for domain-specific assignments at joint secretary, director and deputy secretary levels.
• The government said it does not maintain category-wise data for these hires because reservation rules were deemed inapplicable.
• UPSC cancelled an August 2024 advertisement for 45 lateral posts after objections over the absence of reservation, following a request from the personnel ministry to review the issue.
• Recruitment occurred in three cycles in 2018, 2021 and 2023, with 30 hires in 2021 and 25 in 2023, and the government says the scheme continues through the UPSC mechanism.