The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday directed Department of Employment and Training to create a provision in its website www.tnvelaivaaippu.gov.in for submitting grievances related to wrong entries made in the employment register.
Justice R. Mahadevan gave the direction while disposing of a writ petition filed by an individual who lost the chance of securing a government job due to the officials’ “inadvertent mistake” in entering his educational qualification as class X pass instead of class X fail in the records.
In order to prevent such incidents in future and to provide for an effective mechanism to redress grievances, the judge ordered creation of an online facility through which the registrants could get necessary corrections made within a month from the date when they point out a mistake.
Stating that hopes of unemployed youth in the State to secure a government job should not be shattered due to mistakes committed at the end of the employment exchanges, Mr. Justice Mahadevan directed Employment Officers in all districts to act upon online complaints immediately.
In the instant case, the petitioner M.S. Anilkumar of Kanyakumari had claimed that people who registered after him got employed in jobs requiring a minimum qualification of class X fail even as he remained unsponsored for the posts due to the mistake that had crept in the records.
Filing a counter affidavit in the case, the District Employment Officer (DEO) said that the mistake had been committed inadvertently and now the petitioner was not eligible to be appointed in government service as he had crossed the age limit for such appointment.
Not in agreement with the submission, Mr. Justice Mahadevan said that the petitioner could not be allowed to suffer for a mistake committed by the officials. He directed the DEO to sponsor the name of the petitioner for a suitable job in any one of the government departments within six weeks.
