The Supreme Court declined an urgent hearing on a plea challenging the Madras High Court's decision to quash the appointment of 17 personal assistants to judges. The High Court had ruled the recruitment process was arbitrary and lacked merit-based selection
All the party units in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry have started directing their district level groups to prepare a list of potential candidates for the polls.
This new selection process would incentivise employers to offer higher wages or petition for positions requiring higher skills and higher-skilled workers instead of using the programme to fill relatively lower-paid vacancies.
