Bengaluru: High Court has stated that the reservation should be subject/discipline-wise. 

The clubbing of vacancies and operating the roster is contrary to the judgments of the Supreme Court, noted the HC. The High Court has said that reserving a solitary post in favour of a candidate belonging to SC/ST would not stand the scrutiny of law. HC stated this allowing a petition filed by a mathematics lecturer, employed in an aided PU college at Mandya.

However, Justice M Nagaprasanna stated while giving a judgement that the government contended that as long as government orders are in force, directing clubbing of vacancies, even a single post can be notified in favour of candidates belonging to SC or ST. He referred to judgments passed by the Karnataka High Court as well as the Apex Court where it has been held that reservation has to be subject-wise.

The petition was filed by M S Rashmi, working at PES College in Mandya since September 2007. She challenged the September 22, 2019 notification calling for applications from candidates belonging to SC (women) in mathematics subject. The petition said that fixing reservation for a particular category, single cadre post would amount to 100% reservation, which is impermissible.