K.M. Joseph, C.J.

Appellants are the writ petitioners. The Uttarakhand Technical Education Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) issued an advertisement dated 20.12.2011 for the Accounts cadre, which was given a Group code, named, Group-29. The eligibility criteria as well as the posts in different Departments were indicated in the advertisement. The result of the written examination was declared on 07.10.2013. The writ petition was filed seeking direction to permit the appellants to appear in the computer type test on 18.01.2014 and to consider the candidature of the appellants for G-29 posts.

2. This writ petition came to be heard along with three other writ petitions. In the said three writ petitions, advertisement was issued for two posts by the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission). The writ petitioners in the said three writ petitions came to Court complaining that for the posts therein, one of the qualifications, which was fixed, namely, ‘O’ Level Certificate in Computer Operations was not a qualification, which was readily available as the Institutes, which issued the said Certificates were not active in the State of Uttarakhand.

3. Learned Single Judge by the impugned judgment has disposed of all the three writ petitions in the following manner:

“7. The insistence on ‘O’ Level certificates issued by the DOEACC society in the present case does not appear to be reasonable, as this Court has been informed that there are not sufficient number of institutions in the State of Uttarakhand granting such Certificates. In fact, out of 145 only 59 candidates were having such certificates. By and large, the candidates who reside in hill areas have been ousted from the competition, as they do not have such certificates for the simple reason that the area to which they belong, DOEACC society does not have such institutions.

8. The report of the committee is also not very helpful to the petitioners as there is no clarity in the said report about the course which the petitioners had undergone except that in case the certificates are from recognized organizations of the Centre or State Government, the matter be considered sympathetically.

9. In view thereof, this Court finds that since the intention of the Government was to see whether each candidates has computer knowledge and computer operating skills and if the candidates have undergone such course which gives them this ability and the course is recognized either by the State Government or by the University, then the Public Service Commission shall constitute a Committee which will comprise one representative of the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission and another representative of the Uttarakhand Technical Education Board and one representative appointed by the Principal Secretary, Technical Education, Government of Uttarakhand who would be an expert in the field of computer science, preferably from the recognized Institute in Uttarakhand such as Indian Institute of Technology.

10. The three members Committee shall examine the computer skill certificates of each of the petitioners and if such certificates are found to be recognized by the University or Government of India body or State Government then for such candidates a computer operation skill test be conducted, and if they are found to be up to the mark in the operation of computer and are judged to be skilled in computer, they be accordingly marked and recommendations made.

11. Since the entire result of the selection process is withheld, let the Committee be constituted immediately and the examination of the certificates be done by the Committee as early as possible but not later than eight weeks from the date of production of certified copy of this order.”

4. The appellants are before this Court challenging the judgment to the extent that the Commission was to constitute a committee and they desire that the said direction may be replaced by a d