Hon’ble B. Amit Sthalekar, J.—Since the controversy involved in all the above writ petitions is similar, therefore, the above writ petitions are being decided by this common order.

2. Heard Sri Ashok Khare, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Siddharth Khare for the petitioners, Sri K.S. Kushwaha, learned counsel for the respondent No. 4 and Sri Mata Prasad, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondent Nos. 1 to 3.

3. Initially writ petition No. 30313 of 2016 (Abha Tripathi and 24 others v. State of U.P. and others) was filed by the petitioners for a direction to the respondents to hold interview of the post of Gram Panchayat Adhikari in pursuance of the Gram Panchayat Adhikari Examination-2015 and further to treat them as fully qualified and eligible for the said post without raising any objection with regard to the non-possession of the Computer Concept Course (CCC) certificate awarded by the DOEACC Society. Subsequently, by way of an amendment application which was allowed, the petitioners also challenged para 8 of the Advertisement No. 7(3)/2015.

4. The petitioners of W.P. No. 30313 of 2016 who are 25 in number applied against the advertisement No. 7(3)/2015 for the post of Gram Panchayat Adhikari under the Panchayat Raj Department of the State. They were issued admit cards and they also appeared in the written examination. The result of the written examination was published on 28.4.2016 and all the petitioners were shown to have qualified the written examination. Thereafter, the interviews were commenced from 30.5.2016 and are to continue till October, 2016. The petitioners have also been issued letters by the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission, Lucknow-respondent No. 4 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Commission’) to participate in the interview on the date prescribed therein. The petitioners appeared in the interview on various dates but they were not permitted to participate in the interview on an objection raised by the Commission that the petitioners did not possess the CCC certificate awarded by the DOEACC Society.

5. The admitted case of the petitioners is that none of them possess the CCC certificate in computer from the DOEACC Society. The qualification of the petitioners as given in para 13 of the writ petition is as under:

S. No.	Petitioner	Educational Qualification
1		Abha Tripathi B.Sc. in Information Technology.
2	Amod Chauhan	Bachelor of Computer Application and Master’s Degree in Computer Application.
3	Ashish Kumar Srivatava	Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology.
4	Ajay Yadav	High School and Intermediate Examination Certificate with Computer as one of the subjects.
5	Ajeet Pratap Singh	Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.
6	Akhilesh Pal Singh	High School with Computer as one of the subjects and Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.
7	Ashok Kumar Singh	Bachelor of Computer Application.
8	Radha Raman Khare	Diploma in Computer Application and Bachelor Degree in Computer Application.
9	Sanjeev Kumar Singh	Bachelor of Science with Mathematics and Computer Science.
10	Pankaj Katiyar	Post-graduate Diploma in Computer Application.
11	Yogesh Tripathi	Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electrical Engineering.
12	Vimal Kumar Sharma	Master of Computer Application.
13	Mohd. Akil Jamal	Bachelor of Arts with Computer as a subject.
14	Vaibhav Rai	Master’s Degree in Computer Application.
15	Sandeep Kumar	Nayak Bachelor of Technology Degree in M