1. - An advertisement for recruitment to the post of Teacher Gr. III (Urdu), for the year 2000-2001 was issued by the respondents on 7.11.2000. The last date of receipt of application forms was 16.12.2000. In the advertisement itself, the minimum qualifications and experience required for the post had been notified. A detailed criteria for preparing the merit list was also given in advertisement itself.

2. The petitioner also applied for the above post notified for District Bundi. After receiving application forms, merit list was prepared and published on 30.12.2000 for District Bundi as per the criteria notified in the advertisement dated 7.11.2000. In the merit list, the name of the petitioner was placed at Serial No. 61 on the basis of percentage of marks obtained by him as per the criteria notified in the advertisement. Since the petitioner could not be given appointment on the post referred to above, being lower in the merit list, the present writ petition has been filed by him on 23.1.2001 with the following prayers :

"(i) by issuance of writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature thereof, clause 8 of the circular dated 8.11.2000