ahead of the last date for receipt of application. Though the petitioner claimed regularisation and age relaxation relying on the Note below Statute 149, at the time of hearing, the learned Senior Counsel submitted that the petitioner is not pressing those contentions. Therefore, the only contention of the petitioner is that the upper age limit for appointment shall be reckoned as on the first day of January of the year in which applications were invited, as in the case of the University of Kerala, University of Calicut, University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kerala Agricultural University, M.G University, Kannur University, Government Engineering College etc., as can be seen from Exts.P10 to P16. The petitioner also relies on the provision in Ext.P3 notification which provides that the Government orders issued from time to time would apply to the selection. It is pointed out that Public Services (Date for Determination of Age for Eligibility for Appointment) Rules, 1977, provides for determining the age as on the first day of January of the year in which applications are invited. The contention of the petitioner is that Government Orders issued from time to time as well as the regulations of UGC are applicable to the selection and appointment in the University and therefore the age limit has to be reckoned as on 1st January. The petitioner has produced Exts.P19 and P20 minutes of the Board of Management, whereby it was decided to reckon the age limit as on 1st January, and produced Ext.P27 agenda notes for the meeting held on 30.10.2017 along with I.A.No.1/2018, pointing out that there was a suggestion for amendment regarding the prescription of age limit to make it as 1st January of the year in which applications are called for in the light of the 1977 Rules and the rules followed in all the Universities.
