1 is correct: Article 16 (4) provides that the can enact legislation for the reservation of posts in government sector or jobs in favour of the classes of citizens, which the State considers have not been adequately represented in the services the State. In the past seven decades of constitutional on reservations, the Supreme Court of has consistently referred to the notions of and “merit,” while adjudicating the validity various reservation policies. The Court has held in judgments — Indra Sawhney v Union of India M Nagaraj v Union of India 2006 — that the policies made under Article 16(4) of the would be limited by Article 335, which for “maintenance of efficiency of while considering the claims of the Castes (SCs) and the Scheduled Tribes (STs) in making of appointments to public services and This was done while the Constitution does not the term “efficiency of administration.” 2 is not correct: Article 335 states that he of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Tribes shall be taken into consideration, with the maintenance of efficiency of in the making of appointments to and posts in connection with the affairs of the or of a State. This Article, has however, not the expression 'efficiency of administration'. option (c) is the correct answer.