Applicant is the son of late Jayendran P, who was Senior Project

Attendant, an employee in Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,

Thiruvananthapuram, VSSC, for short. He died on 14.02.2015 after a

short illness, leaving behind wife and two children. The applicant is the

elder son of Jayendran, who made Annexure-A5 application on

30.09.2015 for compassionate ground appointment. The application was

rejected by the respondents; aggrieved by the same, this O.A. has been

filed for calling for records leading to Annexures-A9, A10 and A12 and to

set aside the same, to direct the 2^nd respondent to consider the

application for compassionate appointment commensurate with his

qualification untrammelled by the concept of per capita income

introduced by the Department of Space and to declare that the applicant

is entitled to be appointed on compassionate ground without taking into

account the stipulation of per capita income.

2.

According to the applicant, the scheme followed by the

respondents in the matter of compassionate appointment is Annexure-

A6, where the concept of per capita income for the purpose of

considering an application is absent, it is incon