Court stays TRB order

MADURAI: A single judge at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has stayed an impugned order of the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) pertaining to a BA, B Ed graduate, after she filed a writ petition alleging that her name was unlawfully dropped from the seniority list of the government employment registry.According to the petition filed by G Dhanalakshmi, she was given a priority certificate by the special tahsildar (adi-dravidar welfare) in 2004, after 4.5 hectares of her land at Usilampatti was acquired by the government to establish a burial ground for the adi-dravidars.Subsequently, on April 30, 2010 she was called for a certificate verification process for the post for graduate assistant in Government Higher Secondary Schools, based on her seniority in the employment exchange. She was listed as the 32nd candidate for appointment of graduate assistants for the year 2010 and 2011 and her provisional selection was published in the TRB website, she told the court through her counsel, Arul Vadivel Sekar.In October 2011, the chairman of TRB is said to have provisionally selected her for the post of graduate assistant and he reportedly received a copy of her appointment order in the last week of October 2011. On January 6, 2012 she also participated in a counselling session to select the district for her posting.However, her name was not found in the seniority list in an order of the TRB issued on February 23, 2012, Dhanalakshmi alleged. In place of her name, the name of one Jeyamalar was included, she said, adding that this name was not listed in the seniority list for 2010-2011.“I am already above forty years, and my chance of getting employment in the future is very remote. Deleting my name from the employment registration took away my legitimate right of getting employed in government service,” she said.Justice K Venkataraman, on hearing the case ordered a notice to the TRB, apart from issuing an interim stay.