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(1) The State Government may make rules for carrying out Power to the purposes of this Act. make rules. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) form in which every establishment shall submit annual report to the State Government regarding the number of persons recruited in such establishment; (b) any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed by rules made in this behalf. THE SCHEDULE (See section 4.) The reservation for the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in services or posts in an establishment shall be given effect to in the following manner, namely:— (i) A roster of twenty vacancies will be necessary to give effect to the reservation of vacancies for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. The roster given below shall be adopted for the purpose by each establishment. 1st vacancy Unreserved 2nd vacancy • • Ditto 3rd vacancy Scheduled Caste 4th vacancy Unreserved 5th vacancy Ditto 6th vacancy Ditto 7th vacancy • 6 Ditto 8th vacancy . . Scheduled Tribe 9th vacancy • • Unreserved 10th vacancy • • Ditto 11th vacancy Ditto 12th vacancy • • Ditto 13th vacancy • . Scheduled Caste 14th vacancy 4 4 Unreserved 15th vacancy • • Ditto 16th vacancy Ditto 17th vacancy • . Ditto 18th vacancy • • Scheduled Caste 19th vacancy • • Unreserved 20th vacancy • • Ditto 161 The West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 1976. [West Ben. Act XXVII of 1976.] (The Schedule.) (ii) A register shall be maintained for giving effect to the instructions contained in paragraph (i). (iii) Before making an appointment by direct recruitment, the appointing authority shall ascertain by consulting the register whether the vacancy is reserved or unreserved and if it is reserved, for whom it is so reserved. Immediately after an appointment is made the particulars thereof shall be entered in the register and signed by the appointing authority. (iv) The roster is a running account from year to year and shall be maintained accordingly. If recruitment in a particular year stops at a particular point of the cycle, say at the 5th point, recruitment in the subsequent year shall begin at the next point, i.e., at the 6th point. (v) No gap shall be left in the roster in filling vacancies and if a reserved vacancy, say at the 6th point of the cycle, has, for want of a qualified Scheduled Tribe candidate, to be treated as unreserved, the candidate appointed shall be shown against the point. An attempt shall be made at the time of filling each successive unreserved vacancy to recruit a Scheduled Tribe candidate but if a Scheduled Tribe candidate cannot still be found in the year in which the vacancy is filled, the reservation shall be carried forward to the following year. The first unreserved vacancy in that year shall be reserved for Scheduled Tribes in addition to any other vacancy available to them according to the cycle. (vi) In the absence of a qualified Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidate in a particular year, the vacancy shall be carried forward for the next two years and need not be carried beyond that period. (vii) The roster shall be maintained separately for permanent and temporary vacancies. (viii) A vacancy due to whatever cause, except termination of service during probation, shall be treated as a fresh vacancy. (ix) A candidate who claims to be a member of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes shall support his candidature by a certificate from a Gazetted Officer or from such other authority as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act. 162