- (1.) Instant batch of petitions has been filed assailing validity of R.16(1) read with Schedule -I appended to the Rajasthan Vidyalaya Sahayak Subordinate Service Rules, 2015 ("Rules, 2015"), by the petitioners who are either widow/divorcee women for whom reservation has been provided of 8% & 2% respectively u/R.10 of the Rules, 2015.
(2.) The post of Vidyalaya Sahayak is included in the Schedule appended to the Rules, 2015 and the selection process came to be initiated by the respondent pursuant to advertisement dt. 21 -7 -2015 and as regards reservation of vacancies for women is concerned, R.10 of the Rules, 2015 envisages that reservation of vacancies for women candidates shall be 30% category wise; in direct recruitment out of which 8% shall be for widow and 2% for divorcee women candidates and in the event of non -availability of the eligible and suitable widow and divorcee women candidates in a particular year, the vacancies so reserved for widow and divorcee women candidates shall be filled by other women candidates and in the event of non -availability of eligible and suitable women candidates, the vacancies so reserved for them shall be filled by male candidates.
(3.) The candidate who intends to participate in the selection process has to fulfill the requirement of holding academic & technical qualification & experience in terms of R.16 of Rules, 2015 read with Schedule -I appended thereto and experience is one of the condition of eligibility and we consider it appropriate to quote the requisite qualification & experience for direct recruitment for the post of Vidyalaya Sahayak as being indicated in Schedule -I appended to R.16 which reads ad infra: - - "R.16. Academic and technical qualifications and experience: - - A candidate for direct recruitment to the post enumerated in the Schedule -I shall possess: - - (i) the qualifications and experience given in column 4 of the Schedule -I; and (ii) working knowledge of Hindi written Devnagri script and knowledge of Rajasthani culture. ;