JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. Tongpok Pongener, learned counsel for the petitioner and also heard Ms. Livika, learned State counsel for the State respondents.

2. By filing this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondent authority to consider for regularization of his service with retrospective effect from the date of initial appointment, i.e. 07.06.2011 with all consequential benefits. The petitioner also challenges the requirement of 45% marks in degree course for Graduate Teacher prescribed in the advertisement dated 20.11.2023 on the ground that no such requirements is prescribed in the State Government notifications/Rules and the National Council for Teacher Education.

3. The case projected by the petitioner is that the Directorate of School Education, Nagaland published an advertisement bearing No. ED/ADMN/1/2009-10 dated 20.11.2009 inviting application from eligible indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland for filling up of posts of Graduate Teachers and Primary Teachers in the Government Middle School and Government Primary School under the Government of Na