IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICICATURE FOR RAJASGTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR S.B.Civil Writ Petition No.10685/2008 Baldev Singh Bajiya Vs. State of Raj. & Ors. Date of order : 04.03.2009 HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PREM SHANKER ASOPA Mr. G.K.Jain for Mr. Hanuman Choudhary for petitioner. Mr. M.F. Beg, Dy.Govt. Counsel for State. Heard learned counsel for the parties. By this writ petition the petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondents to consider the candidature of the petitioner for the post of G.N.M. under NRHM Scheme on contractual basis for the financial year 2008- 09 pursuant to the advertisement dated 08.08.2007. The submission of the counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is having the qualification of Senior Secondary (Vocational) which has been treated equivalent to Senior Secondary(Academic) by the Supreme Court in a case reported in 2001(10) JT SC 178, titled as Sunita Sharma Vs. State of Rajasthan. Subsequent thereto, there are several judgments of this Court on the same issue after following the judgment of the Supreme Court. Counsel for the respondents does not dispute the aforesaid legal position and submits that the Court may pass the appropriate order. - 2 - I have gone through the contents of the writ petition and further considered the aforesaid submissions of the parties and in my view the non-consideration of the case of the petitioner simply on account of not having Senior Secondary (Academic) is contrary to the aforesaid settled position of law and the respondents are directed to consider the case of the petitioner and pass appropriate order within a period of one month from the date of production of the certified copy. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. (PREM SHANKAR ASOPA),J. Gandhi 66