Different yardstick for selections
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: In a petition filed by Mahmood Ahmed and Monty Kangotra of Jammu Division, who are aggrieved over discrimination of Transport Department for selection of Motor Vehicle Inspectors, a Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) comprising Rakesh Sagar Jain and Anand Mathur has directed the respondents to consider the applications for the posts.
After hearing Senior Advocate Rahul Pant with Advocate Nishant Shukla for the petitioners, the CAT observed, “undoubtedly the prescribed qualification for candidates from Jammu and Kashmir Division is same, however in the matter of selection, the respondents have taken different yardstick to deal with their cases and while giving employment to the candidates from Kashmir Division, the respondents rejected the case of the applicants with similar qualifications, as such the applicants have been discriminated against”.
The CAT held that the qualification possessed by the applicants is similar to the qualification prescribed for Kashmir Division and directed the respondents to declare the result of the applicants and based on their result, consider them for selection to the post of Motor Vehicle Inspector, Jammu Division.
The case of applicants was that they applied for the post of Motor Vehicle Inspector but their candidature was rejected solely on the ground that the work experience from a reputed automobile workshop was undertaken by them before they were awarded their educational degree/diploma.
It is the further case of the applicants that prescribed qualification for candidates from Jammu and Kashmir region were similar, however, in contradiction to the rejection of the case of the applicants, respondents have selected the candidates from Kashmir Division, despite the fact that those candidates from Srinagar had also got their experience before they received their qualification degree/diploma.
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