HC: Lowering ETT age limit unwarranted

Chandigarh, April 3

More than a year after the state invited online applications for recruitment of 3,522 ETT teachers after prescribing the age limit of 18-37 years as on January 1, 2015, the Punjab and Haryana High court today ruled that the age specified in the advertisement was not sustainable.

Justice Jaishree Thakur asserted that age has to be in accordance with the Punjab State Education Class III (Primary School Cadre) Service Rules, 1997, notified on June, 11, 1998, which was between 18-42 years.

“Once rules are in existence, there will be no occasion to deviate from them by reducing the age of eligible applicants to 37 years. Reduction of age in the advertisement is wholly unwarranted being dehors the rules,” Justice Thakur asserted. The ruling came on a bunch of 38 petitions filed against the State of Punjab and other respondents by Parminder Kaur and other petitioners. — TNS