Jaipur, 26 April (HS). Rajasthan High Court has given permission to the state government to continue the recruitment process in the case of challenging the change made in the middle of the recruitment process in the eligibility condition of experience certificate in the recruitment of sanitation workers on 24,797 posts in local bodies. However, the court has kept the recruitment subject to the final decision of the petitions. The court has told the state government that the interests of the petitioners should not be affected in the recruitment. The court has fixed the hearing of the case on May 28. Justice Sameer Jain gave this order while hearing about two and a half dozen petitions including that of Uday Singh Yadav.
In the petitions, challenging the eligibility conditions of March 15, 2024 regarding the experience certificate, it was said that lakhs of candidates applied for the recruitment of sanitation workers in the local bodies of the state government on March 1, 2024. Meanwhile, in the middle of the recruitment process, the recruitment agency issued a corrigendum on March 15 and changed the eligibility conditions of the experience certificate. In the new conditions, it was said that in recruitment, only the work experience certificate which has been issued by the competent officer of the urban body or the cleaning contractor for the work related to public road or public sewerage will be considered valid. Whereas earlier in the order dated June 9, 2023, one year work experience certificate of central or state government semi-government institution, placement agency and contractor was considered valid in the experience certificate. The petition said that the conditions cannot be changed during the recruitment process. Therefore, sanitation workers should be recruited only as per the eligibility conditions of the experience certificate dated June 9, 2023. Hearing which, the single bench ordered to continue the recruitment process and kept it subject to the decision of the petition.