IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14061 of 2011 Date of Decision: August 04, 2011 Raj Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana & another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers 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? Present: Mr.Sansar Kundu, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. Respondent No.2 issued an advertisement inviting applications for 475 posts of Lecturer in the year 2009. Last date of submission of applications was 27.11.2009. The petitioner applied for the post of Lecturer in Mathematics. At that time, the petitioner was doing Ph.D. from Singhania University. He was enrolled in Ph.D. on 13.4.2009. Screening examination was conducted on 12.9.2010. Subsequently, an announcement is made on 26.7.2011 giving relaxation to only those candidates, who had enrolled upto 31.5.2009 and who acquire degree of Ph.D. upto the date of interview. On 26.7.2011, respondents have issued a corrigendum giving relaxation of 5% marks to those candidates belonging to SC/ST. The date of submission of application forms was extended upto 8.8.2011. The petitioner accordingly has filed this writ petition to say that he is eligible for applying upto 26.7.2011. The petitioner also seeks direction to permit him to appear in the written examination. The examination has already been conducted in the year Civil Writ Petition No.14061 of 2011 :2: 2009. The petitioner has not approached the respondents so far with his claim. The announcement relied upon by the petitioner, i.e., Annexure P-2 is only for those limited number of candidates, who were enrolled in the Ph.D. Degree on or before 31.5.2009 and they are only exempted from the eligibility condition of NET/SLET for recruitment to the post of Lecturer. They can possess Ph.D. Degree upto the date of interview. The latter corrigendum issued by the respondents is applicable to SC/ST candidates and entitles those only, who could not earlier apply. The announcement referred to is only to the effect that those who are registered for Ph.D. upto 31.5.2009 need not fulfill the condition of having passed NET/SLET. Then they can acquire Ph.D.degree upto the date of interview. The announcement or corrigendum does not give any extended right for applying. Dismissed. August 04, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE