C.W.P. No.19011 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No.19011 of 2011 Date of Decision: 05.10.2011 Sushila ....Petitioner Versus Haryana Public Service Commission ...Respondent CORAM : Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present:- Mr. Y.P. Malik, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? ** NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. (ORAL) The prayer of the petitioner in the present petition is for issuance of direction to the respondent to interview the petitioner for the post of College Lecturer in Maths, holding her eligible for the said post as she is serving as Lecturer Maths, on regular basis, to which she was appointed after the approval of the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Vide Circular letter dated 04.11.2009 (Annexure P-6), the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra revised qualifications for the post of Principal and Lecturers in the Colleges of Education. One of the qualification is that the candidate must possess a certificate of passing NET. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the said eligibility criteria is not applicable to the petitioner in view of the fact that the said condition did not apply to the approved teachers who are C.W.P. No.19011 of 2011 2 already in service. Since the petitioner was already serving in Maths in Arya Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Mor-Majra Karnal, which is affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, the said eligibility criteria “passing the NET' is not applicable to her. It is an admitted position that the petitioner is seeking fresh appointment. Thus, the argument of learned counsel for the petitioner has no merit in view of the fact that the petitioner is seeking a fresh appointment. A perusal of the instructions dated 04.11.2009 relied upon by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the condition of Ph.D/NET shall not be insisted upon for approved teachers who are already in service would be applicable to the candidates who are already in service and cannot be held to apply to those who want to leave the post held by them and are seeking fresh appointment in another institution. No other argument was raised. Accordingly, the present petition is dismissed being devoid of merit. (NIRMALJIT KAUR) 05.10.2011 JUDGE gurpreet