Nishita Mhatre, J. - (1.) The petitioner is a doctor who is aggrieved by the actions of the Government in not granting her the trainee reserve certificate and sponsorship for her to prosecute her Post Graduate degree. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal has dismissed her claim for the Sponsorship Certificate for prosecuting her Post Graduate course under the Trainee Reserve Certificate category as she had not completed three years of rural service.
(2.) The undisputed facts are as follows: "The petitioner completed her Higher Secondary education in 1999 and was admitted to the Calcutta National Medical College to prosecute the MBBS course in the year 2001. On successfully completing the course and obtaining her degree of M.B.B.S., she completed House -staffship in the Paediatric Department of the S.S.K.M. (Government) Hospital, Kolkata in 2008. She then joined service of the West Bengal Health Service as a Medical Officer at Chandipur Primary Health Centre, Malda on 20th May, 2011. The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Malda, directed the petitioner to attend a one month training course for medical officers in the Department of Neonatology, IPGMR SSKM Hospital between the period 10th August, 2011 and 10th September, 2011. Thereafter on 2nd December, 2011 the petitioner was directed to join as Medical Officer in the Paediatric Department of the District Hospital, Malda in the public interest. By a Memo of the same date, she was directed to continue in this post in Malda. By a subsequent notification dated 20th December, 2011, the petitioner continued in the same post. She was then appointed by the State Government as Medical Officer, SNCU, District Hospital by an order dated 23rd August, 2012. She was released from the Chandipur Primary Health Centre by an order dated 17th October, 2012. She then joined Malda District Hospital as Medical Officer, SNCU on 10th January, 2013."
(3.) The petitioner appeared for the West Bengal Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination as an in -service candidate in the year 2015. She cleared the examination successfully and therefore sought a sponsorship certificate from the government. This was issued in her favour by the Deputy Director, West Bengal Health Service on 26th March, 2015. She was admitted on 10th June, 2015 in the M.D. Course (Anesthesiology) in the Calcutta National Medical College during the third round of counselling under the service quota.;