IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 16953 of 2009 DATE OF DECISION : 06.11.2009 Karam Singh .... PETITIONER Versus State of Haryana and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. V.K. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. The petitioner has filed the instant petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for quashing the letter dated 1.4.2008 (Annexure P-10), issued by the Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited (hereinafter referred to as `the respondent Corporation'), whereby the petitioner has been informed that the Certificate of computer training submitted by him from the Tata Infotech Ltd. is not equivalent to one year Diploma course in computer, which is the minimum qualification for appointment on the post of Field Inspector (Store); as well as the order dated 2.1.2009 (Annexure P-16), passed by the Managing Director, Hafed, Panchkula, whereby claim of the petitioner for appointment on the post of Field Inspector (Store) has been rejected. CWP No. 16953 of 2009 -2- In the present case, the Haryana Staff Selection Committee, on requisition from the State Government, vide Advertisement No. 3 of 2007, advertised 44 posts of Field Inspector (Store) in the pay scale of Rs. 4000- 6000, prescribing the following qualifications for the post : (i) Graduate from recognized University; and (ii) Minimum one year Diploma in Computer from the recognized University/Institution. In response to the said advertisement, the petitioner also applied for the post. Undisputedly, the petitioner is Graduate and possesses two certificates of participation issued by the Tata Infotech Ltd., one (Annexure P-3) pertaining to attending a course on Basics of Computers, Windows of MS Office 2000 at I.G. Government College, Tohana, Fatehabad, from 6.9.2001 to 30.6.2002 with 90 contract hours, and the second (Annexure P-4) pertaining to attending a course on Advance MS-Office, RDBMS, HTML and “C” at I.G. Government College, Tohana, Fatehabad from July, 2002 to June, 2003, with 120 contact hours, with outstanding grade. On the basis of these two certificates, the petitioner applied for the post, claiming that he was possessing one year Diploma in Computer. In the selection process, the petitioner was selected and his name was forwarded to the Hafed for appointment, subject to checking/ verification of the documents pertaining to his qualification, experience, age and caste/category, as claimed by him in the application form. On verification these certificates were not found equivalent to one year CWP No. 16953 of 2009 -3- Diploma in computer. Therefore, the appointment letter was not issued to the petitioner and he was informed vide letter dated 1.4.2008 (Annexure P- 10) that he was not qualified for appointment on the aforesaid post, as the certificates submitted by him from Tata Infotech Ltd., have not been found equivalent to one year Diploma in computer. It was also informed that recommendation of the petitioner for appointment on the post of Field Inspector (Store) cannot be considered till any authentic certificate of one year diploma in computer is submitted by him. It is the case of the petitioner that subsequently, he produced a certificate (Annexure P-5), issued by the Webs Computer Education, for having passed the final examination of DCAP in grade `A' course attended from 21.6.2004 to 20.6.2005 at Uklana Mandi (Hisar), but the said certificate has not been taken into consideration and the appointment has not been made. Hence, this writ petition. After hearing counsel for the petitioner and going through the contents of the petition, I do not find any merit in the instant petition. Merely because the Tata Infotech Limited has entered into an agreement (Annexure P-2) with the Government of Haryana, for imparting computer education as an optional subject in the Government Educational Institutions (Schools, Colleges, Industrial Training Institutions and Vocational Education Institutions) for short duration of computer courses, will not make the certificates (Annexures P-3 and P-4), issued by the Tata Infotech Limited, during that training, as a valid one year Diploma in computer. CWP No. 16953 of 2009 -4- These certificates have been issued for participation in computer training for a duration of 90 and 120 hours. The students, who are studying in Government Education Institutions attended those courses as an optional subject and they were given the certificates for that. Those certificates are not equivalent to one year Diploma in computer, which itself is a separate course. During the course of arguments, learned counsel for the petitioner could not show any material/order that those certificates have been recognized by the Government as equivalent to one year Diploma course in computer. In absence of any such recognition by the Government, it cannot be held that those certificates issued by Tata Infotech Limited with counter signatures of the Principal of the College, can be considered as equivalent to one year Diploma in computer. Similar is the position with regard to the certificate (Annexure P-5) issued by the Webs Computer Education. Therefore, in my opinion, the petitioner has been rightly held to be not entitled for appointment on the post of Field Inspector (Stores) in Hafed, as he is not possessing the essential minimum qualification i.e. one year Diploma in computer. No merit. Dismissed. November 06, 2009 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE