JUDGMENT :

(N. Unni Krishnan Nair, J.)

Heard Ms. R. S. Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioners. Also heard Mr. H. K. Das, learned counsel for the sole Respondent.

2. The petitioners by way of instituting the present proceeding, have presented a challenge to an order, dated 24.05.2023, passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Guwahati Bench, in Original Application No: 040/00105/2023 and Misc. Application No: 040/00053/2023.

3. In view of the nature of the order presently under challenge in the present proceeding; we are limiting the consideration as made by the present order only to the decision as arrived at by the learned Tribunal pertaining to its jurisdiction to entertain the dispute involved in the original application being Original Application No: 040/00105/2023.

4. The facts, in brief, requisite for the purpose of adjudication of the issue arising in the present proceeding, is noticed as under:

The petitioner No. 1 issued an advertisement in the issue of the Employment News, dated 09-15 July, 2022, inviting online applications under a Special Recruitment Drive 2022-23 for filling-up vacancies in various cadres as available in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas