Patna HC cancels ongoing appointment of assistant profs over quota ambiguity
PATNA: The Patna high court on Friday cancelled the This development means that the appointment process would once again get delayed, as it happened in the past. Hearing a petition by Dr Amod Prabodhi, HC bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, however, gave relief to the already appointed assistant professors on the condition that they would be adjusted against backlog vacancies once the roster is prepared in accordance with the laid down provisions. The court had asked the state government to furnish details of the reservation roster applied for appointment with backlog position, with full details of the entire method and manner in which they had gone about it and sent requisition to the commission for various posts. “The record is required to be seen as to how the requisition was sent to the Commission at the relevant point of time mentioning backlog vacancies which go to almost 3/4th of the total number of vacancies,” the bench observed. Last time, the Bihar Public Service Commission had advertised 3,364 vacancies in 2014, nearly 17 years after the previous advertisement in 1997, and the interview process got underway in 2015 and stretched up to 2020 before the Commission was revived.
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