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Sonya Meena v. State of Rajasthan

Rajasthan HC5 Jan 2023CW/47/2023

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What is this about?

This common order disposed of multiple writ petitions challenging the delayed issuance of experience certificates required for claiming bonus marks in Nursing Officer recruitment. The Court directed authorities to issue certificates by a specific date without verifying bonus mark eligibility upfront and allowed online applications to proceed without uploading certificates initially.

What did the court decide?

Directing issuance of experience certificates by Jan 16, 2023; allowing online applications without certificate upload; specifying verification parameters for Mobile Medical Units personnel.

Sonya Meena Vs State of Rajasthan — Service and Employment | Rajasthan HC (2023)

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR

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S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 19677/2022

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Lala Ram S/o Shri Jawana Ram, Aged About 33 Years, R/o 115, Meeno Ka Bas, Kanlao, Pali (Raj.).

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----Petitioner

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Versus

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State Of Rajasthan, Through The Principal Secretary, Medical And Health Department, Government Of Rajasthan, Secretariat, Jaipur.

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The Director, State Health And Family Welfare Institution, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

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The Additional Director (Non-Gazetted), Medical And Health Services, Rajasthan, Tilak Marg, Swasthya Bhawan, Jaipur.

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The Joint Director, Medical And Health Services, Zone Jodhpur, District Jodhpur.

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The Chief Medical And Health Officer, Pali.

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----Respondents

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For Petitioner(s)	: Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.	Mahaveer Bishnoi Jayram Saran Tanwar Singh Akash Goyal Kailash Jangid V.S. Bhawla
	Mr.	Balvinder Singh
	Mr. Mr.	Suresh Kumar Maru Lokesh Mathur
	Mr. Mr.	Rakesh Arora Naresh Singh
	Mr. Ms. Mr. Mr. Mr.	Ram Dev Potaliya Deepika Purohit O.P. Sangwa Bharat Singh Rathore Ramdeen Choudhary
For Respondent(s)	: Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. (No	K.S. Rajpurohit, AAG with Shreyansh Mehta Rajat Arora Sanjay Saxena, Joint Director n-Gazetted)

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JUSTICE DINESH MEHTA

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Order

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05/01/2023

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Present writ petition and others enlisted in the Schedule appended herewith involve common grievance and identical relief. Hence, they are being disposed of conjointly by this Common order. The Schedule shall be treated as part and parcel of the order instant.

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All the petitioners claim to have worked under the Government or schemes being run by the Government on contract basis or through placement agencies. All of them wish to apply for the post of Nursing Officer advertised by the respondents by recruitment notification dated 16.11.2022.

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The terms of the advertisement and relevant Rules provide for bonus marks to eligible candidates on the basis of experience gained on prescribed conditions and for the purpose of claiming bonus marks candidates are required to upload experience certificate in prescribed proforma duly issued by the competent authority (CMHO concerned).

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Their main grievance is, that in spite of the fact that they have applied for issuance of experience certificate which is mandatory for claiming bonus marks for the post of Nursing Officer, the concerned CMHO/authorities are not issuing them experience certificates due to which they are not able to submit their online application forms.

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While pointing out that thousands of applicants have applied for experience certificate and there are limited resources and manpower to deal with such huge number of applications in short span of time, learned counsel submitted that in absence of clear

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guidelines and yardsticks, the CMHOs are taking longer than usual time and precaution while issuing experience certificates. It was also contended that in many cases they are verbally refusing to issue certificates citing that the applicant is not entitled for bonus marks.

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It is brought to the notice of the Court by the learned counsel for the petitioners that in view of the stipulation carved in the circular dated 05.12.2022 particularly "ik= vH;fFkZ;ksa", the CMHO concerned are raising all types of queries/hurdles and making it almost impossible to obtain an experience certificate. 7. It was argued that though the entitlement for bonus marks is to be determined by the competent authority/recruitment authority at the time of document verification or preparation of merit list, but the CMHOs have taken unto themselves the task of adjudging the eligibility of each candidate.

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Considering the grievance of the petitioners, this Court had directed the Joint Director (Recruitment) Medical & Health to remain present so that the concern expressed and issues raised by the petitioners can be appropriately addressed. 9. Mr. Sanjay Saxena, Joint Director (Non-Gazetted), OIC Recruitment present in person assured the Court that full cooperation would be extended to the candidates and though instructions have been issued to expeditiously issue experience certificate and circulars have been issued from time to time, yet clarification, addressing various concerns shown by the candidates, would be issued within a period of three days from today. And all the authorities will be directed to issue experience certificate in light of the direction issued by the Court and in terms of the circular that will be issued by the Directorate/State.

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Heard learned counsel for the parties and the Joint Director. 11. In a bid to ward off inconvenience and hardship to the candidates and in order to expedite and streamline the process of issuing experience certificate, it is deemed expedient and hence ordered that:-

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(i) Henceforth, the candidates will be required to submit their application forms in two copies, out of which one copy will be returned to the candidate with a receipt with date and seal by the officials of the concerned CMHO.

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(ii) All the candidates will be required to submit a copy of the experience certificate, issued by the concerned agency/NGO/ respective authorities while submitting application for experience certificate.

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(iii) All the candidates who have applied for issuance of experience certificate by 12.01.2023, will be issued experience certificates in prescribed proforma in accordance with law, as early as possible, latest by 16.01.2023.

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(iv) The experience certificate will be issued on the basis of experience gained and duties (name of post/job) discharged by the candidates, regardless of their opinion about concerned candidates' entitlement for bonus marks.

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(v) All the candidates will be permitted to submit their online application form (upto the last date) with the claim of bonus marks, even without uploading the experience certificate.

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(vi) After the process of submitting online application form is over, the recruiting authority will open the window/website at least for a period of seven days and permit the candidates to amend/modify their application form (if required) and

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allow the candidates to upload the experience certificate whose certificates will be issued after 16.01.2023.

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(vii) Considering the judgments of this Court rendered in the case of Mahipal Lakhera Vs. State of Raj. & Ors. S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.2577/2020 decided on 11.01.2021 and Sanwar Mal Saran & Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. : S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.12080/2018, decided on 28.08.2018, it is directed that the candidates who have worked in 108 Ambulance and Mobile Medical Units will apply for experience certificate with copies of their earlier experience certificates issued in the year 2013/2018. The concerned CMHOs will accordingly verify them and issue experience certificate in the new format, considering the judgments rendered in the cases of Mahipal Lakhera (supra) and Sanwar Mal Saran (supra).

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(viii) The CMHOs concerned shall confine themselves to issue experience certificate after verifying the facts regarding experience gained on a particular post, without bothering themselves about candidate's eligibility/ entitlement for a particular post and/or bonus marks. They will obviously examine the actual work performed by the candidates.

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Needless to observe that above directions have been issued only for the purpose of issuing the certificates. Mere grant of experience certificate will not confer any right upon the candidates to claim bonus marks. It will be open for the respondents to verify the veracity and entitlement of individual candidates on the basis of the experience gained, nature of work performed and applicable law.

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The Director (Non-Gazetted) shall issue a circular and inform all concerned incorporating above directions and all other requisite instructions within a period of three days.

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All the petitions so also stay petitions stand disposed of accordingly.

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Rights of the respondents to reject/refuse experience certificate in appropriate cases shall stand reserved and so shall remain the candidates' rights to take legal recourse.

(DINESH MEHTA),J

172-Ramesh/-

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Schedule

S.NO.	Item No.	WRIT PETITION NO.	PARTY N	AME
1.	171	SBCWP NO.19522/2022	Umesh Kalra & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
2.	173	SBCWP NO.19681/2022	Chetan Bhargav	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
3.	174	SBCWP NO.19683/2022	Ravi Kumar Jeengar	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
4.	175	SBCWP NO.19684/2022	Purnima Panwar	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
5.	176	SBCWP NO.19707/2022	Laxman Lal Meghwal	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
6.	178	SBCWP NO.29/2023	Sharvan Kumar & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
7.	179	SBCWP NO.34/2023	Rajesh Prajapat	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
8.	180	SBCWP NO.41/2023	Sohan Lal	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
9.	182	SBCWP NO.47/2023	Sonya Meena	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
10.	¹⁸⁴	SBCWP NO.72/2023	Uttam Chand Parihar	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
11.	¹⁸⁵	SBCWP NO.75/2023	Anisha Khan & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
12.	¹⁸⁶	SBCWP NO.111/2023	Vandana	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
13.	¹⁸⁷	SBCWP NO.112/2023	Bajarang Lal	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
14.	¹⁸⁸	SBCWP NO.121/2023	Hemlata Kumari Koted	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
15.	¹⁸⁹	SBCWP NO.122/2023	Veermal Rana	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
16.	¹⁹⁰	SBCWP NO.123/2023	Dhanna Lal Sharma	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
17.	¹⁹¹	SBCWP NO.126/2023	Hemendra Meghwal & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
18.	¹⁹²	SBCWP NO.162/2023	Laxman Charpota	State of Rajasthan & Ors.

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19.	¹⁹³	SBCWP NO.163/2023	Savita Damor	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
20.	¹⁹⁴	SBCWP NO.164/2023	Mohan Lal Meena	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
21.	¹⁹⁶	SBCWP NO.173/2023	Shanti Choudhary	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
22.	²⁰⁴	SBCWP NO.209/2023	Premlata	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
23.	²¹⁰	SBCWP NO.233/2023	Meenakshi Rao	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
24.	²¹¹	SBCWP NO.235/2023	Manish Khinchi	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
25.	²¹²	SBCWP NO.236/2023	Dr. Isha Sharma	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
26.	²¹³	SBCWP NO.238/2023	Deepak & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
27.	²¹⁴	SBCWP NO.241/2023	Gomati	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
28.	²¹⁵	SBCWP NO.244/2023	Shimla Bai Gurjar	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
29.	²¹⁷	SBCWP NO.249/2023	Manju	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
30.	²¹⁸	SBCWP NO.256/2023	Bhavana Suthar & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
31.	²²¹	SBCWP NO.261/2023	Indra Vishnoi	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
32.	²²²	SBCWP NO.265/2023	Koyal	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
33.	²²³	SBCWP NO.268/2023	Seema Dara & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
34.	²²⁴	SBCWP NO.269/2023	Om Prakash & Ors.	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
35.	⁸⁹	SBCWP NO.19627/2022	Ramesh Kumar Ghaveri	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
36.	¹⁰⁶	SBCWP NO.131/2023	Sandeep Surela	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
37.	^S-7	SBCWP NO.326/2023	Rakesh Yadav	State of Rajasthan & Ors.
38.	^S-12	SBCWP NO.335/2023	Kamlesh Garasiya	State of Rajasthan &

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				Ors.
39.	^S-II-3	SBCWP NO.377/2023	Sikha Swami	State of Rajasthan & Ors.

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