ORDER :

1. In this group of three petitions, the petitioners have challenged the action of the respondent No.2-District Panchayat Service Selection Committee in deleting the name of the petitioners from the Select List and including the names of the candidates having educational qualification other than what is prescribed in para 3.1 of the advertisement which requires a candidate to possess either two or three years Diploma in Agriculture or Bachelor degree in Rural Studies.

2. As the facts in all these three petitions are similar, the same were heard analogously and are being disposed of by this common order. For the sake of convenience, facts are taken from Special Civil Application No. 12008 of 2017 treating it as a lead matter.

2.1 The petitioners are having the qualification of Bachelor in Rural Studies [for short ‘BRS’] from the recognized university.

2.2 The respondent No.2-District Panchayat Selection Committee issued advertisement inviting application for the post of Gram Sevak in November 2016. The advertisement prescribed the requisite qualification to be Diploma in Agriculture of either two or three years or Bachelor in Rural Studies.

2.3 The petitioners preferred online ap