VIKRAM KUMAR MAHERIYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners, who are working as District Coordinator, Block Coordinators, Coordinators Supervision/Trainer, Resource Persons and Social Scientists under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, Total Sanitation Campaign, School Water Sanitation and Hygiene Education, Integrated Watershed Management Programme and Swarn Jayanti Gram Rozgar Yojna in various Districts of State of Rajasthan, have challenged the substitution to the first proviso to Rule 23 of Rajasthan Rural Development and Panchayati Raj State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1998 (hereinafter after referred to as 'the Rules of 1998') vide Notification dated 06.03.2013. In the substituted first proviso to Rule 23 of Rules of 1998, stipulation about the grant of bonus marks in recruitment to the post of Junior Engineer, Assistant Programme Officer, Computer Instructor, Accounts Assistant, Coordinator Training, Coordinator I.E.C. and Coordinator Supervision, has been provided.

(2.) THE petitioners are claiming that non -inclusion of the posts held by them, for the purpose of grant of bonus marks is discriminatory because the petitioners, while working on these posts under the various schemes, have gained similar kind of experience while discharging the duties of same nature, as has been discharged by the employees who have been included in the substituted first proviso to Rule 23 of the Rules of 1998.

(3.) HAVING considered the pleadings and the arguments advanced on behalf of the petitioners, we are clearly of the view that these writ petitions are devoid of merits.