NISHA Vs. HARYANA STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present writ petition has been filed challenging the order dtd. 22/6/2021 (Annexure P-8) by which 5 marks under the socio-economic criteria, has been declined in favour of the petitioner while considering her claim for appointment to the post of Lower Divisional Clerk [hereinafter referred to as the 'LDC'] advertised by the respondent-Commission vide Advertisement No.1l of 2019.

(2.) The facts leading to filing of the present petition are as under: The respondent-Commission published an advertisement dtd. 5/7/2019 bearing No. 11/2019 for inviting applications for 495 posts of LDC to be filled up in Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited [hereinafter referred to as 'UHBVNL']. The last date mentioned in the advertisement for submitting the application form for the said posts was 25/7/2019, which kept on extending upto February, 2020. The petitioner, considering herself eligible as per the qualifications mentioned in said advertisement, applied for the post of LDC under the General category. She filled the application form and attached the documents claiming 5 marks, which were to be awarded to the candidates who fulfill the socio-economic criteria. The selection was to be made on the basis of a written examination and the candidates qualifying in the written examination were to be called for scrutiny of their documents and candidates found eligible, were to be appointed on the basis of the merit obtained in the written examination as per the criteria envisaged by the respondent-Commission. The petitioner appeared in written test conducted by the respondent-Commission and as per the result declared on 12/3/2021, petitioner qualified the same. As per the result, the petitioner secured 89 marks in the written examination and as the petitioner was also claiming 5 marks awarded on the basis of the socio-economic criteria, she contemplated her marks to be 94. The petitioner was called for scrutiny of the documents on 16/3/2021 where all her documents were scrutinized.

(3.) Final list of selected candidates was declared by the respondent-Commission on 30/4/2021 wherein the name of petitioner did not figure. As per the said final result, the last candidate selected in the General category secured 93 marks.