COURTESY HT FEB 10

HC RESTRAINS HARYANA FROM PROCEEDING WITH TEACHERS’ RECRUITMENT
Chandigarh : The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday restrained Haryana government from proceeding with the recruitment of 2,000 sports and school special assistants, on the basis of the advertisement issued on January 25.

The high court bench of justice GS Sandhawalia acted on the plea of Jangir Singh and three others who had contended that the advertisement issued for the recruitment is tailor-made to re-employ retrenched Physical Training Instructors (PTIs).

It was argued that the minimum age limit is 18 years and maximum age limit of 57 years.

It was further stated that the condition of experience in physical training is totally arbitrary and discriminatory as six marks for every year have been given to those who worked as PTI in the education department of the state and only one mark for every year to those who worked as PTI under private organisations.

The retrenched PTIs had served for a period of 10 years before their selection was set aside in September 2012 and therefore, in comparison to the private employees or the private organisations, only one mark is to be given for every year, subject to maximum of 10 marks, the court was told.

The high court, taking note of submissions, asked government to not to proceed with the recruitment and respond to the issues raised in the plea by March 18. htc