Chennai: Decks have been cleared to fill 750 posts including assistant engineers in Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) with Madras High Court permitting Tangedco to proceed with the recruitment process based on the results of the written examination. Justice T.S. Sivagnanam dismissed a batch of 51 petitions from apprentices. Tangedco is now permitted to proceed further with the recruitment process based on the results in the written examination, the judge said.
Petitioners said they have completed their apprenticeship training in Tangedco and therefore should not be compelled to appear for the written examination. The judge said when call letter was sent by Tangedco to the candidates, whose names were sponsored by the Board of Apprentices, there was a specific clause, which stated that the candidates should give an undertaking that he/she should not claim any right at a later date for regular appointment in Tangedco on account of undergoing the apprenticeship training. It was not in dispute that such was the condition agreed to by all the petitioners.
In such circumstances, the only option available to them was to compete with the candidates from the open market, subject themselves to the process of recruitment, appear for the written examination, attend oral interview and in the event, there was a tie between a trained apprentice and the candidates from the open market, that was, if all things were equal, then and then alone, the trained apprentice was entitled for preference, the judge added.
