LPA No.150 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURTOF PUNJAB AND HARYANA, CHANDIGARH. LPA No.150 of 2009 in CWP No. 1820 of 2009 Date of decision:16.3.2009 Silak Ram and others ...Appellants. vs. State of Haryana and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE J.S.KHEHAR. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH. --- Present: Mr.Kartar Singh Malik, Advocate, for the appellants. -- J.S.KHEHAR,J. (Oral) Through the instant appeal the appellants have impugned initiation of the process of selection at the hands of the respondents to the Haryana Civil Services Examination. The claim of the appellants in the writ petition which has been declined by a learned single bench of this Court pertains to requiring the respondents to pose questions in Hindi rather than English. The solitary contention advanced by the learned counsel for the appellants is based on the averments made in paragraph 4 of the writ petition. Paragraph 4 of the writ petition is being extracted hereunder:- “That the respondents wrongly shall be set the Literature paper in English only but in all the Haryana State Hindi is a compulsory subject and it is the national language of the India, it is mother tongue of the State of Haryana and petitioner read all the subject upto matric in Hindi Language and in Haryana State all the Govt. schools upto the matric teaches Hindi in all the Literature and the action of the respondents is totally against the interest of the petitioners and against the student of LPA No.150 of 2009 2 the state and in the State of Haryana only about 5-10% student do his study upto matric from English Medium”. It is the vehement contention of the learned counsel for the appellants, that the appellants were domiciles of Haryana, and had qualified their matriculation examination by taking their examination in the language of Hindi. Hindi being their mother tongue, as also the national language of this country, the question papers of the optional subjects, as well as, general papers should be set in Hindi, so as to enable the appellants to respond to them effectively. On account of the fact that question papers are set in the English language, it is submitted, that the appellants being not conversant with the technical words in the English language cannot answer the question papers effectively. We have considered the solitary contention advanced by the learned counsel for the appellants. The learned Single Judge while disposing of CWP No. 1820 of 2009 vide order dated 5.2.2009, had clearly noticed, that the eligibility condition for taking Haryana Civil Services Examination is graduation, and as such, merely on account of the fact that the appellants had answered their questions upto matriculation in Hindi, would not justify a claim, that the question papers should be set in English. It is also clear that all the appellants were sufficiently acquainted with the English language, so as to enable them to understand the questions posed in the Haryana Civil Services Examination. In this behalf, the learned Single Judge while disposing of CWP No.1820 of 2009 had expressly noticed, that the first petitioner i.e., the appellant No.1, had acquired the qualification M.Phil in Philosophy, the 2nd petitioner, i.e., appellant No.2 possessed a of Master's degree in Philosophy, and the third petitioner i.e., LPA No.150 of 2009 3 appellant No.3, possessed a Doctoral degree in Philosophy, it was accordingly concluded, that the appellants were well versed with the knowledge of English language, so as to understand the questions posed to them in the Haryana Civil Services Examination, as the appellants had pursued their academic career after qualifying the matriculation examination in English. We find no infirmity in the aforesaid conclusion. No other contention has been advanced by the learned counsel for the appellants. For the reasons recorded hereinabove, we find no merit in the instant appeal, and the same is accordingly dismissed. ( J.S.Khehar) Judge (Nawab Singh ) Judge March 16, 2009 rk