IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CWP No. 5419 of 2010 Decided on: 23.11.2010 Smt. Indira Devi …. Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & Ors. Respondents Coram : The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice The Hon’ble Mr. Justice V.K. Ahuja, Judge For the petitioner: Mr. Tarlok Chauhan, Advocate. For the respondents: Mr. R.K. Bawa, Advocate General with Mr. Ankush Dass Sood, Additional Advocate General. Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. (Oral): The writ petition is filed with the following prayer:- “(a) That the respondents be directed to appoint the petitioner as JBT on regular basis as has been done in the entire batch of 174 candidates of the petitioner. (b) That the policy decision of the State Government applicable in so as it discriminates the petitioner by offering her appointment on contract basis vis a vis the regular JBT appointees particularly belonging to the batch of the petitioner be quashed and set aside.” 2. At Para-3 of the reply, it is stated as follows:- “That the respondent No. 3 again vide letter No. EDN-MND(Ele) Estt-E-1/2007(RTTI)- 2 25057-63 dated 06.9.2007 asked to forward the names of those left out candidates who have qualified JBT/TTC from RTTI/St. Bede’s Shimla and from DIETs (annexure R-4). It is pertinent to mention that in this letter, it had been asked to send list of such registrants also who had done JBT from DIETs. In response to this letter (R-4) a list of 8 candidates including the name of petitioner appearing at Serial No. 2 has been submitted by the replying respondent on 15.9.2007 to respondent No. 3 (annexure R-5).” 3. There will be a direction to the 3rd respondent to take appropriate action in the light of the recommendations made by the Employment Officer without discriminating the petitioner within one month from the date of production of a copy of this judgment alongwith a copy of the writ petition and the reply filed by the Employment Officer. 3. With the above observations, the writ petition stands disposed of, so also the pending application(s), if any. Copy dasti. (Justice Kurian Joseph), Chief Justice (Justice V.K. Ahuja ), November 23, 2010 Judge (SDS/BSS)