NARENDRA KUMAR PASWAN Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD counsel for the parties.

(2.) PETITIONER was denied interview in the Combined Junior Engineer Recruitment Examination, 2012 conducted by the J.P.S.C. on 7.12.2012, though he had succeeded in the written examination.

(3.) ACCORDING to the petitioner he approached this Court for directing the respondents to arrange for interview as he has wrongly been disqualified. It is the contention of the petitioner that the respondents appeared to have disqualified the petitioner at the stage of interview by denying him age relaxation of 5 years and not treating him as temporary employee of the Government of Jharkhand as he was engaged on contractual basis in Jharkhand Education Project Council, Palamau. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the post under which he was working was created under " Sarva Siksha Abhiyan , which is centrally sponsored scheme. The temporary post has been defined under Rule 48 of the Jharkhand Service Code as per which the temporary post means a post created for limited purpose and having fixed rate of pay. In such circumstances, petitioner should have been treated as temporary employee of the Government of Jharkhand and should not have been denied to participate in the interview and selection of the said recruitment exercise.