CWP No. 1490/ 2009 14.05.2009 Present: Mr. Ashwani Pathak, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. D.K. Khanna, Advocate, for respondent No.1. Mr. R.K. Bawa, Advocate General, with Mr. P.K. Sharma, Additional Advocate General and M/s J.K. Verma & P.M. Negi, Deputy Advocate Generals, for respondent No.2. CMP No. 2761 of 2009 Allowed. CWP No.1490 of 2009 Heard and gone through the record. Petitioner applied for the post of Horticulture Development Officer, in response to advertisement dated 28.8.2008. The educational qualification prescribed for the post is M. Sc. Horticulture/Agriculture in any of the disciplines/subjects, mentioned in the advertisement. Admittedly, the petitioner holds degree of M. Sc. Agriculture, but not in any of the disciplines/subjects, specified in the advertisement. His candidature was rejected and the rejection was conveyed to him, vide Annexure PG. He made representation on 27.1.2009, which has been rejected, vide letter dated 19.2.2009, Annexure PJ. He made another representation, Annexure PA on 21.3.2009. No order with respect to this second representation has been conveyed to the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the action of respondent No.1, in prescribing the disciplines/subjects, in which the candidates should be having degree of M.Sc. Horticulture or Agriculture, is arbitrary. According to him, petitioner holds the degree in extension education and a candidate with this degree can also perform the duties of Horticulture Development Officer, the same way and to similar satisfaction as the persons holding master degree in the specified subjects/disciplines. - 2 - CWP No.1490/2009 Such a question is not required to be gone into by the Court. It is for the Recruitment Authority to decide what should be the qualification of the candidates for a given post. Therefore, we do not find any merit in the present writ petition. However, instead of dismissing it, we dispose it of with a direction to respondent No.2 that in case petitioner makes a representation, within a week from today, together with a copy of this order, he shall dispose it of by a speaking order, within 15 days of the receipt of such representation. CMP No.2760 of 2009 Infructuous. Copy Dasti. ( R.B. Misra ), J. May 14, 2009(ss) ( Surjit Singh ), J.