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V. KAMESWAR RAO, ANOOP KUMAR MENDIRATTA
Sonu Lal Gupta – Appellant
Versus
Union Public Service Commission – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, J. The challenge in this writ petition is to an order dated January 23, 2023 passed in O.A. No.102/2023 by the Central Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the `Tribunal') whereby the O.A. preferred on behalf of the petitioners for considering them for appointment to the post of Principal under the Directorate of Education in terms of Advertisement No.07/2021 and for quashing of rejection notice dated November 29, 2022, was dismissed on the ground that they fall short of teaching experience by 14 and 37 days respectively.
2. In brief, petitioner No. 1 Sonu Lal Gupta served the Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi as TGT (Maths) from December 31, 2010 to August 26, 2019 and as PGT since August 27, 2019. Thereafter, petitioner No.1 proceeded on deputation with State Council of Educational Research Training (SCERT in short) since December 17, 2020. Similarly petitioner No. 2 (Geeta) served the Directorate of Education as PGT (English) since January 17, 2011 and proceeded on deputation with SCERT since December 11, 2020.
3. Petitioners applied in pursuance to Advertisement No. 07/2021 issued by Union Public Service Commis
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the experience certificate should be considered valid, and the decision not to award marks for the petitioner's experience was not sustainable....
Teaching experience for appointment as Headmaster must be from recognized regular teaching positions, not from part-time or non-cadre roles, adhering strictly to statutory qualifications.
Point of law: Teacher – Appointment - Respondents are estopped, having allowed the petitioner all throughout in the stages of process, treating her to be eligible and offering appointment, to contend....
Teaching experience certified by government school Principal qualifies for recruitment marks despite unauthorized PTA/SMC appointment; equity protects selected candidate's regularized service while g....
Experience as a para teacher does not qualify for reserved posts for primary teachers as per the advertisement terms.
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