SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA,J. - (1.) With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, both these cases were heard on merit yesterday. After hearing for sometime, the Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) was directed to remain present today.
(2.) Today, the Secretary, RPSC is present with the record and he informs through counsel for the RPSC that the Director, Treasury and Accounts had sent requisition to the RPSC on 02/09/2013 wherein the total number of posts of Accountants and Junior Accountants were mentioned as 3630 out of which 139 posts were reserved under the 4% quota for Special Backward Class (SBC) and it was informed that advertisement may be issued for 3491 posts. Separately, the format of requisition was also sent.
(3.) Accordingly, the RPSC issued an advertisement on 18/09/2013 advertising in all total 3491 posts of Junior Accountant. The bifurcation of 3491 posts was further made vide corrigendum of 31/10/2014 wherein the total number of 3497 posts were mentioned by including 1078 posts for open category and 290 posts for TSP areas. It is noted that while bifurcating the posts, the distribution of posts category-wise was actually made by taking into consideration the original number of posts namely; 3630 and for open category, instead of 1603 posts, 1539 posts were advertised which came to only 47% of all the total number of posts. At the same time, 12%, 16% and 21% of the total 3630 posts was reserved for SC, ST and OBC. The result was declared category-wise on 17/05/2017 which did not include 133 posts which were originally reserved for SBC category upto 4%. Result was declared on 17/05/2017. However, 1% posts of SBC, which had been advertised in the corrigendum dated 31/10/2014, were later on shifted to open category by issuing a corrigendum on 05/06/2017 after declaration of the result and thus 33 posts were added in the open category.;