1. - By the instant petition, the petitioner has prayed that a writ, order or direction in the appropriate nature may be issued in his favour and the respondent-the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as 'the RPSC") may be directed to change/correct the category of the petitioner from General to OBC category and, accordingly, his result may be declared and, on found suitable, he may be allowed to appear in the Main Examination, 2003, with all consequential benefits.

2. Brief facts, giving rise to the instant petition are that the petitioner belongs to Other Backward Caste (OBC) as is evident from the Certificate dated 3rd December. 1999 (Annexure 1) issued by the Tehsildar, Desuri, District-Pali (Rajasthan). On April 6, 2003, the RPSC published an advertisement No. 1, by which applications were invited for the purpose of direct recruitment to the post of Rajasthan Administrative and Subordinate Services by way of Combined Competitive Examination, 2003. In the aforesaid advertisement, eligibility, criteria and procedure has been laid down and the last date for submitting the application form was June 7, 2003. Since the petitioner was possessing requi