Mohini Kapur, J. - (1.) Three writ petitions, namely S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1803/1980, S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1855 of 1980 and S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1877 of 1980 were disposed by the learned Single Judge by his order dated 12th December, 1990. All the writ petitions were partly allowed to the extent that the selection of Kailash Chaturvedi as Principal of Acharya College by the Departmental Promotion Committee held in 1980 for the vacancies as on April 1, 1979 was set aside and the order of appointment issued in pursuance of the said Departmental Promotion Committee was also set aside. The State was directed to reconvene the Departmental Promotion Committee for one vacancy as on April 1, 1979, of eligible persons in the light of the observations made in the judgment. Against this decision in the three writ petitions, mentioned above, Kailash Chaturvedi has preferred three special appeals, namely, D.B. Civil Special Appeals Nos. 7/91, 28/91, 29/91 and 30/91. Writ Petitioner Motilal Joshi has also preferred special appeal against the same judgment as his writ petition was only partly allowed. Kailash Chaturvedi who was respondent in the writ petitions has filed another D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 654 of 1991 challenging the validity of the Note appended to Ordinance 65 sub-clause (iii) in Part 9 in the Statute Book of University of Rajasthan. The above mentioned four special appeals and the writ petition of Kailash Chaturvedi, all are connected matters hence, they are being disposed by this common order.
(2.) The main question in all these matters relates to the eligibility of candidates for purpose of appointment to the post of Principal, Acharya College and Professor and Head of Acharya Department. The main controversy in the case has arisen because earlier Hindi was a subject in Sanskrit study but later on the subject Hindi ceased to be a subject for Post Graduate classes i.e. Acharya Classes in the year 1971. Shri Kailash Chaturvedi was was initially appointed as Lecturer in Hindi and subsequently promoted as Professor in Hindi could no longer'-)e in the line of promotion as his degree was in Hindi and this was no longer a subject in Sanskrit.
(3.) In the University of Rajasthan, Sanskrit is a subject for the graduate and post graduate classes and besides this, there is a separate system of Sanskrit study from the lower level to .that of Post Graduate Classes and these are under the Sanskrit Directorate which was opened in the year 1958 and it awards separate degree. Upadhyay is equivalent to Higher Secondary. Shastri degree is equivalent to graduate degree and Acharya degree is equivalent to Post Graduate degree. The other higher degrees after post graduation are Vidhyavaridhi and Vachaspati. It may be mentioned here that the degree of Acharya is given in the specialities which are different subjects under Sanskrit Education such as Sahitya, Vyakarana, one of the four Vedas, Samanya Darashana, Vedanta, Mimansa, Nyaya Darshan, Paurohitya, Dharmshastra and Puranetihas etc. It may be mentioned here that the above equation is not relevant for purposes of qualifications for eligibility to a particular post.;