Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Court ruling on recruitment of overseers

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed that in future recruitment of overseers under the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Development Engineering Subordinate Service in Tiruvannamalai and Dindigul districts, Technical Assistants (TAs), recruited through outsourcing method under the NREGS (appellants), and whose registration continued in the employment exchange, should be given a chance to appear in the recruitment process.

Disposing of two writ appeals, the First Bench comprising Chief Justice A.K. Ganguly and Justice F.M. Ibrahim Kalifulla said that while doing so, the appellants should not be rejected on grounds of age. If they had crossed the age limit, it should be condoned. Their performance in the written test and their seniority in registration should be considered. If in all these things, the appellants were found equal with other persons who were to be recruited, the appellants should be given weightage considering their experience. The court also directed that vacancies in the post of overseer in the two districts may be filled up by initiating the recruitment process.Two petitions were filed praying for a writ to call for the records pertaining to a G.O. of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department of June this year and the consequential proceedings and quash the same.

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