Petitioners have approached this Court contending that when originally advertisement inviting applications for appointment on the post of Conductor was issued, no minimum marks were required in the trade test, however, after the written and before declaration of result, the respondents literally introduced the condition that each of the candidates must secure 30 marks out of 50 in the trade test. Number of petitions have been filed before this Court which was disposed of by order of this Court in Prem Prakash Sharma vs. RSRTC & Anr., S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.13855/2011 and connected 95 writ petitions by a common judgement dated 9.11.2011 in which on the consent of the parties including the respondent-RSRTC, it was held that the respondents will not insist upon minimum passing marks in the trade test and that candidates would not be denied appointment only because they failed to secure minimum passing marks in the trade test. The appointment should be granted merely on the basis of merit, which would mean combined merit prepared on the basis of written as well as trade test and there being no weightage for interview.
