PARMINDER KAUR Vs. GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner is aggrieved against the action of Guru Nanak Dev University, which has not finally approved her appointment as a lecturer in education in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Education, Patti, Amritsar made by managing committee of the college. University has found that the degree of M.Ed. obtained by the petitioner from Jammu University through distance education is not equivalent to the corresponding degree of M.Ed. granted by the respondent, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

(2.) By way of present writ petition, we have been called upon to say that since the petitioner has acquired UGC NET exam and the degree of M.Ed. obtained by the petitioner from distance education Jammu University is recognized by Panjab University and Punjabi University, therefore respondent-Guru Nanak Dev University should also recognize the same and consequently petitioner's selection as lecturer in the respondent No.4 College be approved. In the written statement filed in the preliminary objections, it has been stated as under:

(3.) Counsel for the respondent-university has also relied upon a decision rendered by this Court in Sunaina Verma v. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and others, CWP No. 10432 of 2007 decided on 01.11.2007 (Annexure R1/3), wherein it was held as under: