AMIT NANDI Vs. BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LTD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This writ petition has been moved by 43 petitioners claiming to be working as Telecom Technical Assistant hereinafter termed as T.T.A.) under Calcutta Telecom Circle. Since Department of Telecommunication has been taken over by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (hereinafter termed as BSNL). The petitioners can be said to be working under BSNL.

(2.) The prayers of the petitioners in this writ petition are as follows:

(3.) According to the petitioners, Rules for Recruitment to the cadre of Junior Telecom Officer (hereinafter termed as J.T.O.) was framed by the issuance of Notification published in the Gazette. This can be said to be Recruitment Rules. The petitioners claimed that by the said Rules the J.T.O.s were to be recruited in respect of the existing vacancies of 65% against outsider quotas of vacancies and 35% against the departmental quotas of vacancies, provided the selected candidates undergo prescribed training as per training plan laid down and amended by the department from time to time.