High Court paves way for principals’ selection process in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 9

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today paved the way for the selection of principals, postgraduate teachers and the staff in “other categories” by permitting the finalisation of the selection process after keeping six posts reserved for the petitioners, who had earlier set the judicial process in motion.

The matter was initially brought to the High Court’s notice by Raman Kumari and other petitioners. In their petition against the state of Haryana, they had prayed for reappointment letters to the posts of principal/postgraduate teacher in different subjects. Directions were also sought for staying the selection process.

Referring to the case, certain candidates, who qualified the written test after applying for the PGT and TGT under the “Aarohi School Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff Recruitment Examination 2019”, moved the High Court through counsel Sanchit Punia.

Appearing before the Bench through video-conferencing, Punia submitted to the court, vide order dated November 1, 2019, restraining the respondents from finalising the selection and reserved six posts for petitioners. As a consequence, the entire selection process was kept in abeyance by the respondent/department

Punia submitted that the petitioners were PGT/principals. But the advertisement was not limited to selection of principals/PGTs. It was also for other categories. “Keeping in view the facts, the applications are allowed. Order dated November 1, 2019, is clarified that only six posts be kept reserved for the petitioners for their categories and the selection process can be finalised for the other posts,” the Bench concluded.