Non-lapsable ex-servicemen quota seats

The promise was not merely to maintain ex-servicemen reservation; it was to make 70 percent of all seats reserved under the ex-servicemen quota non-lapsable. The KSB Guidebook 2025 records Uttarakhand reservation in state government jobs as 2 percent for ex-servicemen only, but I did not find approved-source evidence of a post-2022 policy making 70 percent of those reserved seats non-lapsable, or a notified carry-forward/non-lapse mechanism. The verdict is pending because the underlying ESM quota exists, but the promised non-lapsable conversion is unverified. Budget status: no budget line needed for the quota itself, and no administrative order/allocation found for the promised non-lapsable mechanism.