CHANDIGARH: After the intervention of the Punjab and Haryana high court, the Haryana government has decided to scrap the recently made appointments for sports and school special assistant posts. The government will now invite fresh applications by giving due publicity and public notice.
Earlier, the state government had opened a web portal for a few hours on October 24 to adjust the dismissed physical training instructor (PTI) teachers and to avoid their wrath during the Baroda bypoll that was held on November 3.
However, when some of the candidates had challenged the government’s move of opening the web portal only for a few hours without prior public notice, the Haryana government on Friday gave an undertaking to hold the selection process afresh.
“The state government has taken a decision to invite the applications for filling up the post of sports and school special assistant, after issuing the public notice. Due publicity shall be given, enabling the interested candidates to apply,” the counsel for Haryana government informed the HC on Friday.
With this, the selection made by the state government on the post of sports and school special assistant from among the dismissed PTIs would be considered scrapped and they will have to apply a fresh according to the government new notification.
Importantly, the selection of 1983 PTIs, who were recruited through the HSSC in 2010, was set aside by the HC and the orders were also upheld by the apex court with the directions to the state to hold a fresh selection of PTI. The dismissed PTIs had launched a state-wide protest against the state government.
Although the state government had conducted fresh examination, but all the dismissed PTIs were not selected. To avoid the wrath of the dismissed PTIs, the state government on October 24, when the poll campaign for Baroda bypoll was at its peak, had advertised these posts on a web portal for a short period assuring them to give jobs.
The matter, however, had reached before the HC in the wake of a petition filed by Tejpal, a resident of Ishrana village in Mohindergarh district and others. They had sought quashing the government’s decision for filling up the post of sports and school special assistant on the basis of pick and choose policy without issuing any advertisement and without adopting the selection process.
Hearing this plea, the HC had on December 22, restrained the state government from making appointments on these posts .