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KPSC refuses to recruit candidates from three varsities

Gulbarga: The Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has denied the post of Lecturer in Chemistry to candidates who passed out of Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Karnatak University because of the ambiguity in the Conduct and Recruitment Rules (C&R Rules) of the KPSC.

The KPSC authorities said that only candidates with M.Sc in Chemistry were eligible for the post of lecturer as per the C&R Rules and candidates with M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry/ Organic Chemistry/ Inorganic Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry/Industrial Chemistry/Bio Chemistry/Applied Chemistry/Pharmaceutical Chemistry or Medicinal Chemistry were not eligible for the post of Lecturer in Chemistry.

While the certificates of the candidates show the qualification as M.Sc. along with the specialisation (M.Sc. Organic Chemistry, M.Sc. Inorganic Chemistry and so on), it is the contention of the KPSC that the recruitment rules specify to consider only those candidates with M.Sc. in Chemistry for lecturer posts.

An affected candidate, who wanted to be anonymous, said he had passed his M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry from Gulbarga University. When the KPSC conducted a written test in 2008 for filling up 90 posts of Lecturer in Chemistry in Government Pre-University Colleges, he appeared for the test and was successful too.

He was then called for the verification of his original certificates in January 2009 and that is when the KPSC rejected his application on the grounds that the C&R Rules of the KPSC do not permit students with a particular specialisation for the post of Lecturer in Chemistry.

Several candidates were not recruited on the same grounds. The aggrieved approached the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) seeking the quashing of the provisional list of the 90 candidates for the post of Lecturer in Chemistry announced by the KPSC in June 2009. The KAT did not give a stay for the recruitment process and the KPSC, according to the affected students, was issuing appointment orders to the selected candidates.

According to aggrieved candidates while students of all universities in the State have to opt for a specialisation in Chemistry in the final year, there is no uniformity in the way the certificates are issued. While Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Karnatak Universities mention the specialisation, other universities in the State just mention ‘M.Sc. in Chemistry’.

The Karnataka Pre-University Education Board constituted a Chemistry Group to submit recommendation with regard to the qualification needed for the appointment of lecturers in Chemistry at the Pre-University level. The group submitted its recommendations to the Government on August 19. The aggrieved parties now plan to refer the recommendation made by the group to KAT.

It is said that the expert group had clearly stated in their recommendation that the selected candidates should have studied Chemistry as one of the optional subjects at the degree level and the candidate concerned should have obtained Master’s Degree from any of the recognized universities in any of the following specialisation which included M.Sc. in Chemistry, M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry, M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry, M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry, M.Sc. in Bio Chemistry, M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, or M.Sc. in Medicinal Chemistry.

Candidates who have completed five-year integrated M.Sc. course in Chemistry or Applied Chemistry should also be considered for the post, the expert group recommended.

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