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| HC quashes revised criteria for post of Accounts Assistant | | | Jammu, Nov 28 Justice TashiRabstan of J&K High Court Jammu Wing today decided bunch of petitions challenging the revised criteria for post of Accounts Assistant in District Cadre Jammu and District Cadre Samba and quashed the notification issued by the SSRB.
In the petition, the petitioners are seeking quashing of Notice No.SSB/Set/Say/12/2337-43 dated 06.09.2012 issued by the Secretary, J&K Service Selection Board, revising the criteria for the post of Accounts Assistant. They are also seeking quashing of Corrigendum No.SSB/Sel/Secy/012/2576-80 dated 20.09.2012, whereby the respondent-Board has decided to conduct the written test for determining the merit of the candidates in place of academic merit. Consequently, the petitioners are seeking a direction to the respondents to appoint them against the post of Accounts Assistant on the basis of their merit obtained in the select list dated 26.09.2011 pertaining to District Cadre Jammu and select list dated 30.09.2011 pertaining to District Cadre Samba.
The case as projected by the petitioners in their writ petitions is that the Service Selection Board (for short, SSB) vide Advertisement Notice No.07 of 2010 dated 12.11.2010 invited applications for a total number of 5845 posts in various departments including 872 posts of Accounts Assistant, State/District Cadre. The present case is with respect to the selection of Accounts Assistant for District Cadre Jammu and District Cadre Samba. 108 posts of Accounts Assistant were advertised for District Cadre Jammu, while 12 posts were meant for District Cadre Samba in the pay scale of 5200-20200.
The criteria fixed were 70 points for Graduation (pro-rata basis), 10 points for Post Graduation (pro-rata basis) and 20 points for Viva-voce. all the petitioners were having requisite academic as well as higher relevant qualification having direct nexus with the post of Accounts Assistant, they applied in pursuance of the advertisement notice against the said post under Open Merit. They came to be short listed for interview. Accordingly, they appeared before the Select Committee and were duly interviewed. Thereafter, provisional select lists of the candidates for the post of Accounts Assistant, District Cadre Jammu and District Cadre Samba were published on 26.09.2011 and 30.09.2011 respectively, wherein the petitioners had been shown as provisionally selected. However, before the provisional select lists could be implemented, the respondent-Board issued Notice No.SSB/Set/Say/12/2337-43 dated 06.09.2012 revising the criteria for the post of Accounts Assistant.
In the landmark judgment, Justice TashiRabstan after hearing battery of lawyers allowed the petitions and Notice No.SSB/Set/Say/12/2337-43 dated 06.09.2012 and Corrigendum No.SSB/Sel/Secy/012/2576-80 dated 20.09.2012 are hereby quashed except to the extent of B.Ed. Degree.
Justice TashiRabstan directed SSRB to go ahead with the selection process for selection of candidates for the post of Accounts Assistant in pursuance of Advertisement Notice No.07 of 2010 dated 12.11.2010 and complete the same within a period of one month from the date a copy of this judgment is served upon it.(JNF) |
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