- (1.) Sixty-four petitioners have approached this Court by filing the instant writ petition praying for a direction upon the respondent, Coal India Limited to permit them to appear in the selection test for recruitment of Management Trainees in the said Company.
(2.) The petitioners are all employees of the subsidiaries of Coal India Limited and they were appointed as Wage Board Staff.
(3.) The advertisement that is under challenge in this writ petition is annexed at page 91 of the writ petition. The same has been published by Coal India Limited being Advertisement No. 01 of 2019 for recruitment of Management Trainees through online application mode in different disciplines. The opening date for online registration of applications was December 21, 2019 and the last date of online submission of applications with fee was January 19, 2020. The tentative dates of computer based online test have been fixed on February 27, 2020 and February 28, 2020.;