JUDGMENT :- The post of Lecturer in Geography was sought to be filled in the Punjab Educational Service College Cadre and an advertisement to this effect was published which indicated that the qualifications required for the same would be as under :

"Essential Minimum Qualification :

(i) Masters degree in the relevant subject with at least fifty five per cent, marks or its equivalent grade, as the case may be;

(ii) Good academic record; and

(iii) Should have qualified the comprehensive prescribed under the guidelines issued from time to time by the University Grants Commission or by the Government of Punjab.

Explanation : The term Good Academic Record means at least second class with 50% marks in graduation degree."

2. This requirement is in accordance with the relevant Rules framed for recruitment of Lecturers. The first respondent (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) is one of the applicants. She claimed to have passed the UGC comprehensive test in Human Geography and population studies and it was informed that UGC does not conduct NET in Geography. However, the appellants rejected her application. In support of her claim she had produced a letter from the UGC before the recruit