On Thursday, the Madras High Court upheld the rejection of the candidature of a lady who had carried out the task via Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. on the ground that she was overqualified.
Justice S Vaidyanathan dismissed the petition by R Lakshmi Prabha against the CMRL order, rejecting her application to be a Train Operator, Station Controller, and Junior Engineer (Station). While the instructional qualification prescribed for the posts was a Diploma in Engineering, the female changed into a BE graduate. Referring to the CMRL advertisement, the choice determined that applicants whose qualifications are more than the requirement for a submission aren’t entitled to employment. In his order, the decision said, “In this case, the minimum required qualification has been surely described with a further indication that overqualified candidates need not follow.”
Writ Petition dismissed
“Given what is said herein-above, this court docket has no different option; to preserve that the petit, or is not entitled to the relaxation resulting from qualioverqualification,xisting Writ Petition is prone to be disregarded. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed,” it said. The petitioner, under the Employment Notice of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) issued on February 1, 2013, had implemented for the submission of Train Operation, Station Controller, Junior Engineer (Station) and effectively cleared the online take-a-look at conducted on March 31 that 12 months. After that, the petitioner is requested to supply evidence regarding the non-obtaining of an engineering diploma as of July 23.
The petitioner contended that though she had completed the BE direction on June 21, 2013, the certificate was issued only a month later. At the time of utility, she did not possess a diploma and only held a Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering. The petitioner further argued that she had not suppressed any facts regarding acquiring her engineering diploma, and consequently, her candidature needs to be considered for appointment. In its counter affidavit, CMRL stated that there had been standard coaching given to candidates making use of for the publish of Station Controller, Train Operator, Junior Engineer (Stations) that people with BE, BTech, or another better qualification are not eligible.
Candidates with such better qualifications should maintain that their candidature might be canceled at any time of recruitment or even after appointment in CMRL if they’re located to have suppressed the records of having possessed BE/BTech at the time of filling up the vacancy. It was referred to that the pectin petitioner’s candidature changed into the floor of over-qualification. Consequently, she became unfit for any alleviation she had searched for. Is getting a good education the key to a successful career? Your grandparents taught your parents that this was the way to go, and in turn, your parents instilled these same values in you. But a year before graduating from University, the thought of looking for a job to jump-start your career scares you. You feel knots in your stomach, realizing there has not been a single course teaching and showing university students like you how to get a job fast. This leads to more compelling questions surrounding the present educational system. Has it been negligent to prepare students for the workforce? Are the programs offered by university career centers sufficient to help graduating students find jobs?
