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Rekha Devi v. The State of Bihar

Patna HC4 Nov 2019CWJC/18756/2019

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The High Court dismissed two writ applications challenging the stay on the selection of petitioners as Anganbari Sevika. The court held that the selection criteria require passing a matriculation exam recognized by COBSE. Since the petitioners' certificates were from Jharkhand State Open School which was not listed in the recognized COBSE list, the refusal to accept them had no infirmity. Conseque

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The writ applications challenging the stay on selection were dismissed as having no merit.

Rekha Devi Vs The State of Bihar — Service and Employment | Patna HC (2019)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18654 of 2019

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Kumari Renu Bharti W/o Shri Rajesh Kumar Das Resident of Village Simra, P.S. Belaganj, Dist.Gaya

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... ... Petitioner

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Versus

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The State of Bihar.

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The Principal Secretary, Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna

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The Director, Integrated Child Development Services, Bihar, Patna.

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The District Programme Officer, Gaya

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The Child Development programme Project Officer, Belaganj, Gaya

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... ... Respondents

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with

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Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 18756 of 2019

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Rekha Devi W/o- Sanjay Kumar Resident of Village- Netupur, P.S.- Belaganj, District- Gaya.

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... ... Petitioners

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Versus

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The State of Bihar.

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The Principal Secretary Social Welfare Department, Govt.of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna.

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The Director Integrated Child Development Services, Bihar, Patna.

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The District Programme Officer Gaya.

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The Child Development Project Officer Belaganj, Gaya.

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... ... Respondents

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Appearance :

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(In Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 18654 of 2019) For the Petitioner : Mr. Surendra Kumar Singh For the Respondents : Mr. S.K. Mandal, SC-3 Mr. Arjun Prasad, AC to SC-3 (In Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 18756 of 2019) For the Petitioner : Mr.Surendra Kumar Singh For the Respondents : Mr.M.K. Upadhyay, AC to GP-3 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH

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ORAL ORDER

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5 04-11-2019 In both the writ applications, separate orders, dated 31.07.2019, issued by the Child Development Project Officer, Belaganj, Gaya, is under challenge, whereby selection of

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Patna High Court CWJC No.18654 of 2019(5) dt.04-11-2019 2/3

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petitioners as Anganbari Sevika has been stayed.

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Selection as Anganbari Sevika is regulated by the guidelines issued by Social Welfare Department, Government of Bihar, which prescribes passing of matriculation examination as the minimum educational qualification.

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The petitioners claim that they hold the qualification of having passed the said examination on the basis of a certificate issued by Jharkhand State Open School, Ranchi. On the ground that Jharkhand State Open School, Ranchi, is not one of the Examination Boards recognized by the Council of Board of School Education in India (COBSE), the Child Development Project Officer has stayed their selection. It is the petitioners’ case that the name of Jharkhand State Open School, Ranchi, figures at Sl. No. 24 of the Examination Boards recognized by COBSE. The said statement of the petitioners cannot be accepted on perusal of the list of Boards of School Education, recognized by COBSE. Name of Jharkhand Academic Council, Ranchi, though finds place at Sl. No. 24, Jharkhand State Open School, Ranchi, does not figure at all in the said list.

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I, therefore, do not find any infirmity in the decision of the Child Development Project Officer in refusing to accept the certificates of the petitioners of having passed matriculation

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Patna High Court CWJC No.18654 of 2019(5) dt.04-11-2019 3/3

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examination.

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These applications have no merit and the same are

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accordingly dismissed.

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(Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J)

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Pawan/-

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Rekha Devi v. The State of Bihar

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