IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8044 of 2010 Date of Decision : May 05, 2010. Navtej Singh and others .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.A.D.S.Ghuman, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners have done their J.B.T. Diploma Courses from the State of Jammu & Kashmir. They competed for the posts of ETT Teachers in the State of Punjab and were offered appointments vide letters dated 14.4.2008 (Annexure P-2). They were, however, not allowed to join the duties on the plea that the diploma courses passed by them from the J&K State Board of School Education were not recognized. The petitioners rely upon an order dated 16.7.2009 of this Court in CWP No.19745 of 2008 (Rajinder Singh and others versus State of Punjab and others) (Annexure P-3), wherein the learned State counsel made a statement that the Government of Punjab has taken a policy decision dated 31.3.2009 to recognize the Elementary Teacher C.W.P.No .8044 of 2010 2 Courses passed from J&K State on reciprocal basis. The petitioners have not been extended the benefit of the above noticed concession presumably on the ground that they were not party to the said writ petition. In these circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to implement the order dated July 16, 2009 passed by this Court in Rajinder Singh's case (supra) qua the petitioners as well. Dasti. May 05, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE