JUDGMENT

Ajay Mohan Goel, J. - By way of this petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following substantive relief:-

"(i) to issue a writ in the nature of Certiorari quashing the letter/order dated 25.4.2019 (Annexure P-12) vide which the candidature of the petitioner has been rejected despite the acquisition of qualification as per advertisement Annexure P-1; and further to issue a writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondents to consider the petitioner for the post of Mal Multipurpose Health Worker especially when the petitioner possesses all the requisite qualification and conditions as per the advertisement and further the posts of Male Multipurpose Health Workers are lying vacant and further to issue any other appropriate order or direction as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case to grant appropriate relief to the petitioner."

2. The case of the petitioner is that vide advertisement No. 33-2/2017 (Annexure P-1), issued by respondent No. 2, in the month of September, 2017, various posts were advertised to be filled up in different departments of the Government of Himachal Pradesh, including Male Multipurpose Health Wor