ELANGOVAN Vs. TAMIL NADU PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PROVOKED by the Advertisement No. 84 given by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Com'mission (for short 'TNPSC') and the gross in-justice done to the Dalit converts to Buddhism, the petitioner, a Professor of English and a public spirited person, has filed the present writ petition.

(2.) THE advertisement issued by the TNPSC in all the leading newspapers including `THE Hindu' dated 28.9.2006 called for applications from candidates for the post of Assistants in the Tamil Nadu Secretariat Service and also in the office of TNPSC as well as Personal Clerks in the Tamil Nadu Secretariat Service and also in the office of the TNPSC. Though Column No. 5(i) states that the rule of reservation for appointment by direct recruitment applies to each post separately, the advertisement ad'vised the candidates to refer to the instructions issued by the TNPSC.

(3.) DR. Ambedkar was described by the Nehru's biographer Michael Brecher as the Chief architect or more correctly, the Field General of the campaign for a new Constitu'tion. (See PORECHER MICHAEL, 1959. NEHRU A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. London Oxford Uni'versity Press).