Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000

The Uttarakhand Government advertised 440 ANM vacancies in 2016 without specifying the statutory requirement of an intermediate qualification in the science stream, which the appellants challenged as contrary to the 1997 Service Rules (amended 1998) that continued to apply after the state's creation. The Supreme Court …

The dispute concerned 564 bighas of land that had been jointly purchased and later divided among several tenure holders, whose names were not correctly entered in revenue records. The appellants sought correction of the records, leading to a series of applications before the Sub‑Divisional Officer, Assistant Recording …

The Labour Court, Dehradun awarded reinstatement and back wages to Balbir Singh, which the appellants challenged by filing Writ Petition No.6898 of 1997 before the Allahabad High Court. After the creation of Uttarakhand, Section 35(2) of the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 required such proceedings to be transfe…

Doiwala Sehkari Shram Samvida Samiti Ltd., a private mining firm, applied for a ten‑year lease for minor minerals under Rule 9‑A of the U.P. Minor Minerals (Concession) Rules, 1963. After the bifurcation of Uttar Pradesh, the new State of Uttarakhand adopted the rules with modifications and introduced a policy that, as…

Employees of a college filed a writ petition in the Allahabad High Court seeking regularisation of their services, which was partially granted. The order was not complied with, leading the employees to file a contempt petition under Sections 12 and 14 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. After the Uttar Pradesh Reorgan…

The case concerned two sugarcane growers' cooperative societies (Bajpur and Gadarpur) whose areas of operation were split between Uttar Pradesh and the newly created state of Uttarakhand after the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. The societies were reorganised under the Reorganisation Act, limiting their operati…

The petitioners challenged the Election Commission’s order reserving three seats for Scheduled Tribes in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, contending that under Article 332(3) of the Constitution the number of reserved seats must be proportional to the ST population, which is about 3 % of the state’s total, equatin…

After the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 created the new State of Uttaranchal, the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) had already selected candidates for 544 J.E. Civil/Technical posts and sent its recommendations to the Uttar Pradesh Government, which forwarded them to Uttaranchal. The Uttaranchal…

The petitioners, residents of Haridwar district, challenged the inclusion of their district in the newly created State of Uttarakhand under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, alleging that the Parliament violated the mandatory consultation provision in the proviso to Article 3 of the Constitution. They argued …

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission advertised 544 Junior Engineer posts for the Hill Cadre of the undivided state and published a select list in 2000. After the creation of the new State of Uttaranchal, the Uttar Pradesh Government forwarded the list to Uttaranchal, which refused to appoint the candidates, cit…