Are there any specific criteria or guidelines that the State must follow when making provisions for reservation?
Yes, there are specific criteria or guidelines that the State must follow when making provisions for reservation. According to the context provided, the State can make provisions for reserving appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens which it believes is not adequately represented in the services under the State. It can also make provisions for reservation in matters of promotion with consequential seniority to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes if they are not adequately represented. Furthermore, the State can consider unfilled vacancies reserved for being filled up in a particular year as a separate class of vacancies to be filled up in any succeeding year or years, which shall not be considered together with the vacancies of that year when determining the ceiling of fifty percent reservation on total number of vacancies of that year.