JUDGMENT :

1. These two sets of petition being identical and pertaining to the same subject matter, it is deemed expedient and convenient to take them up together and to dispose the same vide this common judgment and order.

2. Vide advertisement No DSC.3/ADVT/2012/14 dated Jowai, the 1st November, 2012, the Office of the Respondent No. 4 has issued an advertisement for recruitment to various posts in different State Government offices/departments in West Jaintia Hills District, which posts includes 6(six) posts of Sericulture Demonstrator lying vacant in the office of the Respondent No. 3.

3. In the said advertisement dated 01.11.2012, for the post of Sericulture Demonstrator, the minimum educational qualification and other qualifications prescribed is Matriculate with 15th Months’ Certificate Course in Sericulture.

4. While the said advertisement dated 01.11.2012 was still subsisting, Respondent No. 4 issued a Corrigendum to the same vide Office Corrigendum No. DSC.3/ADVT/2012/18 dated Jowai the 28th November 2012 to the extent that the original advertisement was modified to increase the number of posts of Sericulture Demonstrator from 6 to 10 with minimum qualification of 15(fifteen)