Recruitment of PG assistants stayed

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, SEPT. 21. The Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal has stayed all further proceedings of the Teachers Recruitment Board to fill vacancies for post-graduate assistants in the government higher secondary schools in the State.

The order has placed a question mark over the Board's examination schedule, according to which the written examination was to be held on October 6, and the last date for the receipt of applications was September 25.

The Tribunal Chairman, Mr. Justice S. M. Abdul Wahab, gave the interim stay on a petition filed by Mr. R. Palanivelu of Namakkal district, seeking that a government advertisement inviting applications for the posts be quashed.

The petitioner, who is in the live register of the Professional Employment Exchange since July 1986, said the revised recruitment procedure did not give any weightage to the waiting period. Nor was the academic mark scored by the candidates allowed to have its bearing on the selection process, which rested solely on a written test carrying 100 marks and an oral interview carrying 12 marks.

The new procedure ``blatantly violated the settled principle of the law''.

The academic mark could not be totally brushed aside, especially when the eligibility emanated only from the academic qualification.

``The selection, totally ignoring the academic marks/qualification, is an outcome of arbitrary, colourable exercise of power'', Mr. Palanisamy said.

Hitherto, appointments were made based on post- graduate degree subjects, without any reference to the basic degree subject.

But, as per the new procedure, a PG candidate should have obtained the basic degree in the same subject.

The petitioner sought these ``new embargoes'' to be cleared because they were violative of Constitutional provisions.

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