EFLU can go ahead with recruitment interviews, but cannot reveal results: HC
HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Wednesday stayed an order of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) that stalled interviews to be held for filling various posts like teachers etc. at English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) in Hyderabad. The HC, however, told the university not to declare the results of the interviews till further orders.
“You can conduct the interviews, but cannot reveal the outcome of the same,” the HC said addressing the counsel for the university. A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy gave this interim direction while hearing a petition filed by the university challenging the restraint order passed by the NCBC.
The NCBC earlier heard a complaint filed by Congress spokesperson Dasoju Sravan Kumar, who charged the university with flouting the norm related to BC quota in central jobs. The quota was approved and came through an Act made by Parliament and yet the varsity never bothered to implement it, he said.
The commission had earlier summoned Eflu authorities and sought details of the ongoing recruitment. It came to a prima facie conclusion that the university was flouting the norms and stayed the interviews scheduled to be held now. An aggrieved Eflu filed the plea before the HC, contending that the NCBC did not possess the power to injunct and hence the stalling of interviews was wrong. Its counsel also leveled allegations against the commission saying that they were not given proper opportunity to explain their case before staying the process.
The NCBC counsel, however, refuted the allegations and charged Eflu and its current management with doing gross injustice to BCs. Parliament gave a 27% quota to BCs in central jobs. It also gave constitutional status to the NCBC. “We have powers to devise our own procedure to inquire. Eflu gave a mere 2% quota for BCs in its 2019 notification, which it eventually had to withdraw because of the inherent flaws in it,” the NCBC counsel said.
In 2020, it gave another notification for filling 58 posts of teachers and also of other categories. This notification also earmarked just 8 posts to BCs, which was far below the prescribed 27%, he said.
“When we asked the varsity officials about the discrepancies, their replies were evasive and they did not come to the National Commission with any material. They came with empty hands and this shows that, given a chance, they would perpetuate the injustice to BCs,” the counsel for the Commission said urging the bench not to vacate the stay the commission imposed on the interviews.
The bench said it would examine the legal challenge raised by the varsity on whether the commission has powers to injunct on par with a civil court, sought counters from the BC Commission, the Union government, and the petitioner. The case would come up again on August 4.
“You can conduct the interviews, but cannot reveal the outcome of the same,” the HC said addressing the counsel for the university. A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy gave this interim direction while hearing a petition filed by the university challenging the restraint order passed by the NCBC.
The NCBC earlier heard a complaint filed by Congress spokesperson Dasoju Sravan Kumar, who charged the university with flouting the norm related to BC quota in central jobs. The quota was approved and came through an Act made by Parliament and yet the varsity never bothered to implement it, he said.
The commission had earlier summoned Eflu authorities and sought details of the ongoing recruitment. It came to a prima facie conclusion that the university was flouting the norms and stayed the interviews scheduled to be held now. An aggrieved Eflu filed the plea before the HC, contending that the NCBC did not possess the power to injunct and hence the stalling of interviews was wrong. Its counsel also leveled allegations against the commission saying that they were not given proper opportunity to explain their case before staying the process.
The NCBC counsel, however, refuted the allegations and charged Eflu and its current management with doing gross injustice to BCs. Parliament gave a 27% quota to BCs in central jobs. It also gave constitutional status to the NCBC. “We have powers to devise our own procedure to inquire. Eflu gave a mere 2% quota for BCs in its 2019 notification, which it eventually had to withdraw because of the inherent flaws in it,” the NCBC counsel said.
In 2020, it gave another notification for filling 58 posts of teachers and also of other categories. This notification also earmarked just 8 posts to BCs, which was far below the prescribed 27%, he said.
“When we asked the varsity officials about the discrepancies, their replies were evasive and they did not come to the National Commission with any material. They came with empty hands and this shows that, given a chance, they would perpetuate the injustice to BCs,” the counsel for the Commission said urging the bench not to vacate the stay the commission imposed on the interviews.
The bench said it would examine the legal challenge raised by the varsity on whether the commission has powers to injunct on par with a civil court, sought counters from the BC Commission, the Union government, and the petitioner. The case would come up again on August 4.
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