TANGEDCO: Madras High Court Allows Recruitment For 750 Posts
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO), the state's power utility, now can proceed with the process of recruitment to various posts including Assistant Engineer, based on the results of the written examination conducted last year. As reported by Press Trust of India, Justice TS Sivagnanam from Madras High Court passed the order last week while dismissing a batch of writ petitions filed by 51 persons, who have worked as apprentice in TANGEDCO. The petitioners had challenged the December 2015 notification of TANGEDCO, which asked the petitioners to undergo a written examination for selection to the posts. The selection process was for filling up 750 vacancies to the post of Assistant Engineers, Technical Assistants and Field Assistants (Trainee).
On July 2016, by vacating an interim stay barring TANGEDCO from releasing the examination results of the exam conducted to recruit 375 Assistant Engineers, Justice T.S. Sivagnanam has permitted the power utility to publish the results with a rider not to go ahead with the selection process.
Referring to a Supreme Court ruling, the judge said, the law laid down by the Apex Court in a civil appeal while interpreting the condition "other things be equal, a trained apprentice should be given preference over direct recruits" held that all candidates must have been subjected to the same selection process, that is same written test and interview.
The petitioners sought to declare the TANGEDCO notification as illegal besides praying for a direction to Corporation and its Chief Engineer (Personnel) to do away with the examination for the direct recruitments to the post of Assistant Engineer (Electrical), Assistant Engineer (Mechanical) and Assistant Engineer (Civil).
In an another development, Chief minister O Panneerselvam told the Tamil Nadu assembly yesterday that the government had decided to take over the debt of TANGEDCO which amounts to Rs 22,815 crore by a financial assistance. This has been sanctioned under the Centre's Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (Uday).
(With Inputs from PTI)
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