The Telangana High Court had asked the State government to secure instructions in a writ petition challenging the Common Competitive Recruitment Examination held for the posts of different cadre and qualifications.
Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili passed the direction recently after hearing the petition filed by three youngsters seeking to declare the conducting of the exam arbitrary and illegal. The exam was held on October 7, 2018 while the results were declared on March 19, this year.
The petitioners made the State of Telangana, the Telangana State Public Service Commission, the Telangana State Beverages Corporation, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation as respondents.
They contended that the TSPSC had issued notifications to select candidates for the posts of Group-IV ministerial staff, junior assistants in TSRTC, bill collectors in GHMC and other jobs in TSBC during June and July of 2018. The petitioners maintained that some of them had applied for two or more different posts.
Common hall ticket
The petitioners’ counsel told the court that the TSPSC had issued Common Hall Ticket for recruitment tests of the different posts for which separate notifications were issued. The test was held on October 7, 2018.
When the candidates inquired about the test for other posts, they were given to understand that the test held on October 7 was common for all the posts, the counsel submitted to the court.
General ranking
The Commission subsequently published a general ranking list based on the performance of the candidates in the test. The petitioners’ counsel contended that the Commission had no jurisdiction to hold common recruitment test for posts of different cadre and qualifications.
As per the notifications, separate tests should have been held for each type of posts like Group-IV jobs which are of district cadre, the petitioners’ lawyer said. If a person failed to appear for the Group-IV test due to ill-health or other personal reasons, he or she would have had the opportunity to appear for another test.the test of bill collector posts if separate test was conducted, the petitioners maintained.
They requested the court to set aside the common test and the consequential results. The matter would be heard on Monday again.
