THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.25713 of 2011 ORDER: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, one of the major Public Sector Undertakings of the Government of India, recruits quite large number of Engineer Trainees every year. Notification for this year was issued, stipulating the last date of submission of applications as 20-08- 2011, through on-line. The procedure involves, submission of application on-line, and once that is completed, an acknowledgement will be generated. Along with the copy of acknowledgement, a candidate is required to enclose certain documents, mentioned therein. If the benefit of any reservation is claimed by an applicant, he must enclose the copy of the certificate issued by the competent authority along with the acknowledgement and send it through registered post to the furnished address. The petitioners intended to apply for the post of Engineer Trainees. Both of them claimed the status of OBC in their applications. However, they failed to submit the copies of the caste certificate along with the acknowledgement. That obviously resulted in denial of hall tickets to them. The petitioners seek direction to the respondents to receive the OBC certificates and issue hall tickets. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the respondents. As many as one thousand posts of Engineer Trainees, and equal number of Supervisor Trainees, apart from other categories of posts are notified. The applications run into lakhs. To ensure proper scrutiny thereof, the respondents have evolved the mechanism of submission of applications on-line. The petitioners, no doubt, have submitted their applications on-line. That information is fed into the computers. To further ensure that the submission of application and acknowledgement thereof is proper, the facility of generation of acknowledgement is provided. Once the acknowledgement is generated for a candidate, he is required to submit the copy of the same together with copy of challan. The candidates, who claim the benefit of reservation, are required to produce the copy of the caste certificate. There is a clear provision for this, in the acknowledgement. The petitioners, no doubt, submitted their applications in a proper form, claiming the benefit of OBC. However, they did not submit the OBC certificate along with the acknowledgement. On that account, the candidature of the petitioners is not considered, much less for reservation. It is brought to the notice of this Court by the learned counsel for the respondents that more than five thousand applications were rejected on the ground that the certificates pertaining to the reservation were not filed. The examination is scheduled to take place on 18-09- 2011. The petitioners cannot be permitted to submit the OBC certificates at this stage. Even if they are permitted to submit, the system adopted by the respondents is such that, they cannot be accepted, much less tagged on to their application forms. Any indulgence by this Court at this stage would lead to several complications. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J. Dt.15-09-2011. KO