The Bench directed State respondents to complete the 2013 recruitment for Teacher Grade-III posts by fixing a document verification date of April 13, 2018, and complete the process within three months based on merit.
Directions to conclude recruitment, set verification date as April 13, 2018, and complete process within three months.
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR
S.B. Civil Writs No. 4906/2018
Kiran Saini D/o Rameshwar Lal Saini, Aged About 40 Years, R/o Jaishukh Ki Dhani, Baragaon, Ward No. 2, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
----Petitioner
----Respondents
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Ram Pratap Saini For Respondent(s) :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VEERENDR SINGH SIRADHANA
Order
07/03/2018
Heard.
The recruitment process involved in the instant writ application supra was initiated in the year 2013. The recruitment process has not been completed for one or the other reason. Writ application has been instituted before this Bench as well as Principal Seat, at Jodhpur, seeking direction to the Staterespondents for documents verification. Prayers have been granted in this regard from time to time.
The respondents themselves allowed several opportunities to the participating candidates of the recruitment process herein, up to 3rd January, 2018. Prayers to the same effect have also been granted by this Court. Thus, the recruitment process involved herein has become an unending process.
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In the larger interest of the participating candidates recruitment process should commence and conclude with a specific reasonable time frame.
Accordingly, the instant writ application is disposed off with the following directions to the State-respondents:
(a) The respondents shall workout the vacancies in each of Zila Parishads, category-wise, leaving out the vacancies reserved under the interim orders, if any, by the Courts.
(b) Thereafter, the candidates as per the ratio of 1:2 of the vacancies available, shall be called for verification of documents, in each of the category on a common date, which is fixed, with the understanding that no further extension would be acceptable, as 13th April, 2018.
(c) The appointment thereafter, shall be accorded to the candidates who are found eligible and otherwise suitable, strictly in accordance with inter-se comparative merit in their respective category and to the extent available vacancies.
These directions shall not restricted to the instant writ applications but shall apply to all the participating candidates with reference to recruitment process of 2013 involved herein, for the post of Teacher Grade -III.
(d) A public notice in terms of this order shall be notified in the newspapers with vide circulation throughout the State of Rajasthan. It is made clear that no further opportunity for verification of documents shall be allowed in the process involved herein.
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The aforesaid exercise shall be undertaken and completed by the State-respondents as expeditiously as possible; preferably, within three months from today.
With the observations and directions, as indicated above, the instant writ application stands disposed off.
A copy of this order be furnished to Mr. S. K. Gupta, AAG, for onward transmission and compliance, without fail.
(VEERENDR SINGH SIRADHANA)J.
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3 issues framed by the court
Whether the State respondents are directed to expedite the recruitment process for Teacher Grade-III initiated in 2013.
Whether a clear timeline for document verification and appointment of eligible candidates needs to be fixed to prevent indefinite delay.
Whether the directions issued apply to all participating candidates in the 2013 recruitment for Teacher Grade-III posts.
1 provisions across 1 enactments
Kiran Saini
The State Of Rajasthan
The Chief Executive Officer, Zila Parishad, Jaipur
Veerendr Singh Siradhana
As recorded by the court registry
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