Tenkasi Municipality appointing Committee is the recruiting authority in respect of the Revenue Assistant Grade-I post. On receipt of the list of candidates from the District Employment Exchange, Tirunelveli, the first respondent sent call letters to five persons and requested them to appear before the said Committee on 24.07.2013. Out of five candidates, the writ petitioner and the second respondent alone have appeared before the selection committee. The appointing committee considered the employment seniority, educational qualification and the oral test and thereafter selected the second respondent to the post of Revenue Assistant Grade-I. The writ petition is filed after a lapse of eleven months from the date of appointment. Rule 11 of the Tamil Nadu Municipal Rules, 1970 exempts the application of age limit prescribed in the special rules in respect of the candidates belonging to any of the Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes or Backward Classes to the post included in service for which the special rules prescribe a qualification lower than the B.A. or B.Sc., degree of any University, if the candidate possesses a general educational qualification higher than the minimum general educational qualification. The petitioner passed 10th standard with 278 marks and passed +2 in 2 attempts and she is having technical qualification in type writing lower grade only. However, the second respondent completed 10th standard with 330 marks and passed +2 in one attempt and passed M.A. degree and also having technical qualification of English and Tamil Higher grade and short hand Tamil and English lower grade. Further, the second respondent is also having 14 years employment seniority than the writ petitioner. Therefore, the appointing committee considered the above qualification and by applying the Rule 11 of the Tamil Nadu Municipal Service Rules 1970, the second respondent was appointed to the said post.
