Courses done in reverse order could not be a criteria to reject candidature for TRB, says HC

Chennai:

Madras High Court has ordered Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) to appoint a candidate who got her post graduate and under graduate degree before passing her 12^th standard exam.

Justice S Nagamuthu passed the order after hearing a petition filed by one V Kanimozhi, who sought High Court direction to select and appoint the petitioner to the post of Post Graduate Assistant Teacher in Tamil after TRB rejected her candidature as she had not studied the courses in order.

The petitioner studied 10th standard and passed but failed in her 12th standard exams.  Thereafter, under the Open University Scheme

from the University of Madras, she got BA degree in Tamil. Thereafter, she joined B.Ed degree regular course and obtained that degree.  Then, she secured MA degree after doing her regular course in Annamalai University. Thereafter, she passed the 12th Standard (+2) examination to be eligible for appointment under TRB.

Citing the judgment of a division bench of Madras High Court in J Jospeh Irudayaraj versus Joint Director of School Education, Chennai, the judge said requirements of Governbment Order 107, dated August 18, 2009 shall stand satisfied if the candidate has studied 12th Standard after completing BA degree course.  “In other words, because courses are done in reverse order, it is no matter at all,” he observed.

The judge observed that the petitioner completed three year B Litt from Madras University. “Therefore, on the date on which she applied for appointment, the petitioner had an Under Graduate Degree as well as a Post Graduate Degree in the same subject, undergone in the regular stream, from the University of Madras,” he said. 

“In such circumstances, the rejection of her candidature on the ground that it was obtained in a reverse order is not correct. Hence, this writ petition is allowed and the respondents – director of school education and chairman of TRB are directed to pass orders, appointing the petitioner, within a period of four weeks, if all other certificates are in order,” the judge ordered.