Sunday, July 19, 2015

Norms for appointments on compassionate grounds relaxed

The State government has relaxed the requirement that a person applying for appointment in government departments on compassionate grounds should have completed 18 years of age at the time of the death of the government servant, it has informed the Madras High Court.

Not completed 18

During the hearing of a case before Justice D. Hariparanthaman recently, government advocate S. Gunasekaran stated that though a State G.O. dated December 10, 2014 of the Labour and Employment Department relaxed the earlier requirement of completion of 18 years.

On his submission, the judge quashed a G.O. which rejected the application of a petitioner for appointment on compassionate grounds on the ground that he was only 17 years old when the government servant died.

Petitioner G. Arun, son of an Office Assistant at Government Boys Higher Secondary School at Bagalur, who died in 2007 while in service, had sought for quash an order passed by the District Education Officer (DEO) at Hosur which rejected his application for appointment on compassionate grounds.

He was 17 years and five months when his father died in 2007.

After verifying his application with documents, the headmaster of the school recommended the appointment of the petitioner which was rejected by the DEO on the ground that he was only 17 years when his father died and hence the petition.

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