IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3493 of 2010 1. KUMAR SANJEEV S/O SRI ARJUN PRASAD RESIDENT OF VILLAGE㳤SORADIH,POLICE STATION-HARNAUT,DISTRICT- NALANDA.AT PRESENT RESIDING AT C/O SRI RAMESHWAR PRASAD,HOUSE NO. 178/4,RAMPUR ROAD,POST- MAHENDRU,DISTRICT-PATNA 2. NAWNIT RANJAN S/O SRI SHAILENDRA KUMAR RESIDENT AT MOHALLA ADARSH NAGAR,POLICE STATION-HARNAUT,DISTRICT- NALANDA 3. DEVENDRA S/O SRI GANESH PRASAD RESIDENT AT MOHALLA-KANKARBAGH,HOUSE NO. E- 89,POLICE STATION- KANKARBAGH,DISTRICT-PATNA 4. MONA S/O SRI RAMESHWAR PRASAD RESIDENT AT MOHALLA- MAHENDRU,HOUSE NO. 178/4,POLICE STATION- MAHENDRU,DISTRICT-PATNA Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE CHIEF SECRETARY GOVERNMENT O BIHAR,MAIN SECRETARIAT,PATNA 3. THE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION COMMISSIONER CUM SECRETARY GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR,DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,MAIN SECRETARIAT,PATNA 4. THE JOINT SECRETARY GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR,AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT,MAIN SECRETARIAT,PATNA ----------- 2. 26.2.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. An advertisement has been published for appointment on contract basis of subject specialists in the Agriculture Department. The qualification prescribed therein inter alia is graduate in Agriculture and with which issue the present application is concerned. The submission is that the petitioners are Agriculture Engineering Graduates and there is no justification or reasonableness to exclude them from 2 consideration confining it to Agriculture Graduates only. Prescribing the conditions of the advertisement is the prerogative of the employer. This Court cannot substitute its view or rewrite the conditions of the advertisement. But, nonetheless, this Court does find substance in the submission on behalf of the petitioners that with modern agriculture being mechanized and fast pace development of technology also taking place in Agriculture, it cannot be said wholly that Agriculture Engineering Graduates outright cannot be considered for such appointments. Prima facie, this Court finds the submissions on behalf of the petitioner to be fair, reasonable and logical. However, these are matters to be considered by the authorities and only in the event that their actions are arbitrary or unreasonable contrary to logic and law, can the Court interfere with the advertisement. This Court is informed that the last date for submission of the application has been extended to 10.3.2010. Let the petitioners represent before the authorities with full details in support of their submission that Agriculture Engineering Graduates may be better suited, if not the same as Agriculture 3 Graduates when the respondents are required to decide the representation by a reasoned and speaking order dealing with the issue raised in the representation, to facilitate judicial review, if the need arises. It is expected that the representation shall be disposed off within a maximum period of two weeks from the date of receipt and/or presentation of a copy of the representation. If the respondents find justification in the claim of the petitioners, nothing precludes them from extending last date of submission of the application accordingly by issuing necessary corrigendum to the advertisement. The writ application stands disposed. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)