MAYA CHANDEL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer by the advertisement No.9/2011-12 dated 22.07.2011 invited applications from eligible candidates to be considered for appointment as Lecturer (School Education) in various subjects. In pursuant to the advertisement aforesaid, the petitioner submitted an application for consideration of her candidature against the vacancies reserved for deserted women. On being non- consideration of the candidature under the category aforesaid, this petition for writ is preferred. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that as per the Rajasthan Various Service (Amendment) Rules, 2011 (for short, hereinafter referred to as 'the Rules of 2011'), an amendment has been introduced in the Rajasthan Education Service Rules, 1970 providing reservation for divorced women and in that category the candidature of the petitioner should have been considered by the respondents. A certified copy of the divorce decree granted to the petitioner by the competent court on 20.07.2012 is also placed on record.

(2.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner. Under the Rules of 2011, a provision in column (3) against each of the service rules referred in column (2) of the Schedule appended with the Rules of 2011 was added in following terms :-