DR. UJALA NYOLA Vs. UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Under challenge is the communication dated 22.3.2016, whereby the petitioner's representation, pursuant to the order dated 4.11.2015 passed by this Court in SB Civil Writ petition No. 2694/2014, ventilating her grievance with regard to her non appointment on the post of Assistant Professor (Botany) with University of Rajasthan, has been rejected.

(2.) The facts of the case are that under the advertisement dated 1.11.2012, the University of Rajasthan (here-in-after 'UOR') invited applications for appointment to various posts of Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors in 42 odd of its Departments. Included in the advertisement were vacancies on the post of Assistant Professors in the Department of Botany, of which 8 were reserved, as notified, for the Other Backward Classes-Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL). The petitioner having the requisite eligibility submitted an application for consideration for appointment to the said post in the OBC NCL category. She was shortlisted and called for interview on 10.10.2013. Prior thereto she furnished to the Verification Committee, which scrutinized the documents of the applicants, her research publication of 2009 in a Journal recognized by the Department of Botany. The Verification Committee made an endorsement in that regard on the application form. She was then interviewed. The select list for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor (Botany) was declared. The petitioner with 65.75 aggregate marks on the prescribed parameters of the University of Rajasthan Ordinances was not selected as Assistant Professor (Botany), but placed at No.2 in the waiting list for the OBC-NCL category.

(3.) The petitioner in the circumstance sought details of her evaluation and of others in terms of University of Rajasthan Ordinances by the Selection Committee. She therefrom found that while evaluating her at 65.75 marks out of 100, the Selection Committee had arbitrarily allowed her a weightage of only 1.50 marks for securing 60% marks at the Secondary School Examination which in fact ought to have been 1.88 in terms of Appendix III Table II (a) of UOR Ordinance and also denied her 1 mark for her research performance despite her research paper having been published in a journal recognized by the Department of Botany, UOR.