Candidate gets 101.66 out of 100 in job test, aspirants protest Indore : 17.12.2024

Candidate gets 101.66 out of 100 in job test, aspirants protest Indore : 17.12.2024

Job aspirants staged a protest in Indore on Monday raising questions over a candidate getting 101.66 marks out of total 100 due to the adoption of "normalisation process" in a Madhya Pradesh government recruitment. . . examination. 

The protesters alleged fraud in the recruitment examination and demanded a fair inquiry. Eyewitnesses said the agitating unemployed youth gathered in front of the district collector's office and handed over a memorandum addressed to chief minister Mohan Yadav to an officer. The memorandum said in the joint recruitment examination 2023 (Van and Jail Recruitment Test 2023) of Forest and Jail departments, a candidate scored 101.66 marks out of a total of 100 and topped the selection list. The result of this examination conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board, headquartered in Bhopal, was declared on December 13. 

After the announcement of the result, the board clarified the "process of normalisation" has been adopted in the recruitment examination as per rules. . , because of which candidates can get more than full marks (100) and less than zero. Normalization is a process for ensuring that students are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by the difficulty of papers they write. The process involves revising the score of a student in a way that it becomes comparable with the score of another. This becomes necessary when an examination in the same subject is held in multiple sessions, each with a different paper. A leader of the protesters, Gopal Prajapat, told reporters, "This is the first time in the state's history that a candidate has scored more than the total marks due to the normalization process adopted in the recruitment exam. We are protesting against the unfair process. . . of normalization and demanding a fair inquiry." PTI

Can’t change eligibility criteria after advertising vacancy: SC

Can’t change eligibility criteria after advertising vacancy: SC 

Figuring In Select List No Guarantee For Employment: 5-J Bench

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesofindia.com 08.11.2024

New Delhi : Giving a legal cloak to the age-old norm ‘rules of the game can’t be changed midway’, Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the eligibility criteria for govt jobs cannot be altered after advertising vacancies, and also said that transparency and nondiscrimination are inflexible features of public recruitment. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hrishikesh Roy, P S Narasimha, Pankaj Mithal and Manoj Misra said, “Eligibility criteria for being placed in the ‘select list’, notified at the commencement of the recruitment process, cannot be changed midway through the recruitment process unless the extant rules so per mit, or the advertisement, which is not contrary to the extant rules, so permit.”

Writing the judgment, Justice Misra said, “Even if such change is permissible under the extant rules or the advertisement, the change would have to meet the requirement of Article 14 of the Constitution and satisfy the test of non-arbitrariness.” The bench said the recruiting authorities must devise appropriate procedures for keeping the process of selection “transparent, non-discriminatory/ nonarbitrary” with focus on achieving the object of selecting the right candidate for the public employment. Referring to open-ended advertisements for recruitment, SC said it may give some discretion to the recruiting authority to adopt steps relevant to the process of recruitment and nature of employment, but none of such steps could be arbitrary or violative of the right to nondiscrimination guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution. 

However, it also said that even if a person finds his name in the list of selected candidates on completion of the recruitment process, he/ she does not get “an indefeasible right to  appointment”. However, the five-judge bench put in a caveat: “The State or its instrumentality cannot arbitrarily deny appointment to a selected candidate.” But it clarified that “the State or its instrumentality for bona fide reasons may choose not to fill up the vacancies.” It said if vacancies exist, a candidate in the zone of consideration of the select list cannot be arbitrarily denied appointment.

4,500 paramedical staff to be appointed

10/11/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,THANJAVUR

As many as 4,500 paramedical personnel would be appointed through Medical Services Recruitment Board by this monthend, Health Minister C.Vijayabaskar said here on Saturday.

“A total of 2,345 nurses, 1,234 village health nurses and 90 physiotherapists will be appointed,” he told the media after inaugurating a Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative (TAEI) centre and a clutch of other new facilities at Thanjavur Government Medical College Hospital.

Explaining the various facilities added to the hospital, Mr. Vijayabaskar said that apart from the TAEI centre, a modular operation theatre had been opened at Department of Orthopaedics under Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme at an estimate of ₹30 lakh.

Facilities

Five modular operation theatres at the multi-super speciality building of the hospital; a state-of-the-art central sterile services department; a 56-bedded high-end super speciality intensive care unit; a CATH lab; Biplanar Cath Lab; 128-slice CT scanner and a digital X-ray machine were also commissioned on Saturday.

The facilities have been established on a par with international standards and would benefit not only people of Thanjavur but neighbouring districts too, he said.

R. Doraikkannu, Minister for Agriculture; R.Vaithilingam, Rajya Sabha Member; A. Annadurai, Collector; and Kumudha Lingaraj, Dean, were present.