WA 257/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. MADAN B. LOKUR HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY Learned counsel has put in appearance for Caveator. The Caveat stands disposed of. The appellant is aggrieved by an order dated 15.6.2010 passed by the lea rned Single Judge in WP(C) 117/2009. An advertisement was issued in the daily newspaper Amar Asom of 18th J uly of 2008 inviting applications in a standard form for 15 posts of Grade-IV, o f which 5 were for Peons in the Goalpara district under the establishment of Dir ector of Health Services, Assam. The minimum qualification required was a pass i n Class-VIII examination and the candidate should have been above 18 years of ag e and below 38 years of age as on 1st July 2008. In response to the advertisement, as many as 1033 candidates submitted t heir applications. Call letters were issued to them and the selection committee interviewed all the candidates. After conducting the interview the selection committee selected the cand idates and unfortunately for the appellant, he was not one of those selected aga inst the 5 posts of Peon. Being aggrieved by his non-selection, the appellant filed WP(C) 117/2009 which came to be dismissed by the order of the learned Single Judge. It was submitted by learned counsel for the appellant before the learned Single Judge and before us that the appellant had experience as a Chowkidar and had worked on a honorary basis since 2002. Admittedly, this was not given any w eightage or preference at the time of selection. According to learned counsel fo r the appellant, weightage should have been given to his experience and had he b een given the weightage, the appellant would have been selected. In our opinion, since the advertisement does not mention any such prefer ence or weightage for experience, in whatever capacity, the selection committee could not have taken an external factor into consideration in the selection proc ess otherwise the entire process would have been vitiated. The learned Single Judge rightly took the view that on the basis of the selection carried out by a Committee consisting of the Deputy Commissioner/Addl. Deputy Commissioner as the Chairman, Addl. Chief Medical & Health Officer as Me mber and Joint Director of Health Services of the District as Member Secretary, no error or perversity was shown. The appellant unfortunately did not get the re quisite marks and merely because he is experienced does not mean he should autom atically be selected for the post. We do not find any error in the view taken by the learned Single Judge. There is no merit in the Appeal and accordingly it is dismissed.