Requisite Qualification at time of notification of job vacancy not neccessary, can do with ‘equivalent’: Supreme Court
Veering away from the norm that an aspirant should have the “requisite qualification” at the time of notification of job vacancy, the Supreme Court said an “equivalent qualification” at the time of application will do equally well.
“The principle of service jurisprudence that a candidate must possess the requisite qualification for a post on the date of issue of employment notification cannot be applied in the appellants’ cases, as in our view, they possessed equivalent qualifications when they applied for the posts,” a Bench of comprising of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said in a recent judgment.
The judgment was based on appeals filed by two applicants to the posts of High School Assistants in Kerala.
The question before the court was whether their B.Ed. degrees were in the subjects fulfilling the eligibility criteria for the job notified by the State Public Service Commission in 2012.
