conducted, results were published and second phase counselling took place on 02.09.2015. Admittedly, the petitioner ranked 732 and was called for certificate verification. But did not move to the stage of appointment, since upto 729 candidates were appointed. At that juncture, the writ petitioner has no idea of how many did not join duty though they were selected and appointed to the post of Village Administrative Officer. In fact, the appellant Government also were not aware of the position until the vacancy position intimated on 10.11.2017. This has been admitted in the counter affidavit filed during 2018, wherein, it has been stated that the Government have reported the vacancy position received from the District Collectors on various dates and the vacancies intimated is for candidates, who are yet to join from 2013-2014 notification onwards. In the meantime notification dated 12.11.2015, was issued for 813 vacancies for fresh recruitment. We cannot refer this as second notification since the Government has admitted that they do not have the vacancy position upto 10.11.2017 to give to the TNPSC and it is goes without saying that the notification dated 12.11.2015, did not cover those vacancies which had arisen on account of non-joining of candidates or resignation etc., of the candidates selected in the 2013-2014 notification. At that juncture, the writ petitioner started collecting informations under Right to Information Act between March, 2016 to July, 2016 and it came to light that there are several candidates, who did not join. This prompted the petitioner to give representation to the TNPSC and the TNPSC sent reply dated 25.07.2016, stating that they will recommend to the Government to include the non-joining vacancies arising from 2013-2014 to the Government to be included in the ensuing notification. In the meantime, the results of the second recruitment notifications were published on 01.07.2016 and immediately thereafter, the Writ Petition has been filed. Admittedly, no notification was issued for the year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 and the next notification is for the year 2017-2018 dated 14.11.2017. The appellants have admitted that the vacancies arisen on account of non-joining from 2014-2015 onwards have been collected and the total number of vacancies are notified in 2017-2018.
