SAROJAN KUMARI Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Department of Education (School), State of Punjab invited applications for 450 posts of Science Masters/Mistresses to be filled up on contract basis. The petitioner, who possessed the requisite qualification of B.Sc and B.Ed applied in response to the advertisement and submitted her application on 10.2.2009. As per the advertisement itself a weightage of additional qualification was to be given to candidates, who possessed M.A./M.Sc/M.Com/M.Ed to the extent of 6 marks, candidates possessing M.Phil 8 marks and Ph.D candidates were to be given additional weightage of 10 marks. The grievance of the petitioner as portrayed in the present petition is that she has qualified the M.A. (English) on 19.8.2010. Respondent-authorities are denying the requisite weightage of 6 marks, even though, she possesses the higher qualification.

(2.) LEARNED counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner having acquired higher qualifications prior to the finalization of the selection process itself, the denial of the weightage for having acquired such higher qualification was arbitrary and inequitable.

(3.) FOR the reasons recorded above, I find no merit in the present petition. The same is, accordingly, dismissed.