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HC refuses to quash selection of UDD drivers 9/23/2016 11:24:28 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 23:In a bunch of petitions, challenging selection of drivers pursuant to advertisement Notice No 01-DULBJ of May 22, 2012 issued by the director of urban local bodies (ULB), Jammu, high court judge Janak Raj Kotwal has refused to quash the selection list. He observed that the selection committee had counted the experience in terms of months and not in terms of completed years and points had been allocated for months of experience beyond a completed year or years. To explain, for example, a candidate having experience of six years and six months has been awarded 6.5 points. No illegality can be said to have been committed in doing so. If one point is awardable for one year's experience, there is no illegality in awarding half a point for half year's experience and so on, but an objection was raised that some of the selected candidates had secured zero points in experience, indicating that they had no experience. Objection on this score was totally without any merit. It needed to be pointed out that driving experience was not comprised in the requisite qualification prescribed under the Rules of 2008. A candidate having no driving experience could have applied for recruitment in case he fulfilled the basic requirement of being a matric pass and possessing the requisite driving license. The Rules of 2008 or the advertisement Notice did not even provide for any preference to be given to a candidate having experience of driving. The driving experience of course was allocated 10 points to the benefit of a candidate possessing such experience and to avail this experience, the advertisement notification required a certificate to be produced in this regard. However, it was neither impermissible nor impossible for a candidate to steal march over a candidate possessing certified driving experience. With these observations, the court dismissed all the petitions.(JNF)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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