M. NAVEEN BABU Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Standing Counsel for the 2nd respondent.

(2.) These Writ Petitions are filed seeking a direction to the 2nd respondent to consider the cases of the petitioners for the posts of TGTs in Biological Sciences and other subjects notified in Zone-II under SC(G) category.

(3.) The learned counsel for the petitioner in W.P.No.4884 of 2020 submitted that the petitioner is a Post Graduate in Zoology with 70% marks having B.Ed., qualification with Biology and English as Methodology subjects and he belongs to SC Community coming under Zone-II area. While so, the 2nd respondent issued a Notification No.1 of 2019 dtd. 14/2/2019 to fill up the posts of District Coordinator, Principal Grade-II, Trained Graduate Teacher and Caretaker. Consequently the petitioner has applied for the post of Trained Graduate Teacher as he is fully qualified and eligible for the said post under the above said qualification. Annexure-A to the above said qualification shows that 14 vacancies in Zone-II for Biological Sciences, out of which 10 posts are reserved for women in that subject. Similarly, Annexure-B of the above said qualification shows the vacancy position basing upon the community-wise and subject-wise in the respective counts. According to it one vacancy is for SC(G) and one vacancy is for SC(W), three vacancies are for OC(G) and remaining are for the other categories. The petitioner would compete for the three vacancies under OC(G) and one vacancy of SC (G) category with the above said qualification by participating in the recruitment process with Hall Ticket No.190007063. The written test is comprising of Paper-I in English and Paper-II in the relevant subject with a qualifying marks of 60% in the English subject. The written test was conducted on 28/3/2019 and the petitioner was qualified in English paper and he secured 65.87 in total i.e., written test 20% of TET score. Accordingly, he stood at rank 32 in Biological Sciences subject in all zones as per the common ranking list. But he is No.3 amongst the SC category in Zone-II.