CWP No.5547 of 2010.doc - 1 – HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** CWP No.5547 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: 29.03.2010 **** Jagdish Kaur . . . . Petitioner VS. State of Punjab and others . . . . . Respondents **** CORAM : HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT **** 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. R.K. Arora, Advocate for the petitioner ***** SURYA KANT J. (ORAL) (1). The petitioner applied for the post of English Teacher in response to the advertisement dated Admn.1/08 (Annexure P1) issued by the Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab. She having not been selected, has approached this Court. (2). Clause 10 of the advertisement reads as follows:- “10. Regular Pay Scale or Salary per month must be mentioned in the experience certificate, experience certificate without pay will no be accounted for, which should be verified by the Labour Inspector/Shop Inspector in case of private organisation and by Distt. Level Officer in case of recognized/affiliated educational institutions. However, experience issued by the Pvt. Institution affiliated under NSVT/SCVT and Polytechnic/Engineering College in Punjab should be verified by the Principal concerned. Only full time experience will be accounted for application of candidates CWP No.5547 of 2010.doc - 2 – having experience as part time/hourly basis will be rejected and no correspondence wil be entertained in this regard.” (3). As against it, the petitioner relies upon the experience certificate dated 12th September, 2008 (Annexure P4) which reads as follows:- “SACRED HEART CONVENT SCHOOL (Affiliated to I.C.S.E., New Delhi NO.PU-030) S.H. Nagar, Fazilka – 152123 (Pb.) Ref. No. Dated: 12.09.08 Order No.11-7-96-5 Edu 3/14263 Memo No.5848-15/17 grant 1(2) Dt. 16.7.96 Affiliated to ICSE New Delhi No.PU-030 To Whom It May Concern This is to certify that Mrs. Jagdish Kaur w/o Mr. Ravinder Singh is working as a Science, English and Computer Mistress in this school from 15.03.2007. She is working against master cadre post in this school. During her stay in the school her work is satisfactory. She is hard working and co-operative. I wish her all success and God’s blessing in her future endeavours. Sd/- Principal Sacred Heart Convent School Fazilka Countersigned Sd/- Assistant Secretary Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations New Delhi.” (4). Learned counsel for the petitioner fairly states that unless the marks for experience are added, the petitioner does not make it to the selection list. CWP No.5547 of 2010.doc - 3 – (5). In my considered view, the ‘experience certificate’ relied upon by the petitioner has been rightly rejected by the selecting authority as it does not fulfill the requirement of clause 10 of the advertisement, reproduced above, as the pay-scale or the monthly salary, if any, paid to the petitioner does not find mention therein nor it is verified by the prescribed authority. (6). No fault can be found with clause 10 of the advertisement which has been incorporated with a view to curb the practice of relying upon false, fabricated and bogus experience certificates by the candidates. (7). For the reasons afore-stated, no case to interfere with the impugned selection is made out. (8). Dismissed. (SURYA KANT) JUDGE 29.03.2010 vishal shonkar