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DGP Nataraj’s application dismissed
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Departments, Other, government, police on March 9th, 2010
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has rejected a petition by DGP (Director of Fire and Rescue Services) R Nataraj, challenging the appointment of Letika Saran as Director General of Tamil Nadu Police.
Dismissing Nataraj’s application, the Madras Bench of CAT, comprising K Elango and R Satapathy, held that Nataraj had not established any arbitrariness. Besides, he had not pointed out any specific violation of rules in appointment of Saran as DGP.
In its order, the Tribunal said though the applicant claimed he had been empanelled by the Union Government in the panel of DGP as per a May 2009 memo, a perusal of the same showed the panel was not drawn up to fill up the DGP post.
Subsequent to the memo, the Centre had equated the post Nataraj held in the DGP cadre to enable him to draw a higher pay and allowances. In as much as Nataraj had also been posted in the cadre of DGP, he could not have any grievance in the matter of appointment of Saran, it said.
The main relief claimed in the application, to quash the appointment of Saran and consequently to direct authorities to follow the rule of law in filling up the vacancy to the post of DGP was an omnibus prayer, which was not maintainable in the absence of any specific violation of rules in filling up the vacancy in the DGP’s post, the bench pointed out.
Nataraj, in his petition said Saran was junior to him and others and that she ought not to have been appointed as DGP. The process of selection and appointment was not followed by constituting the screening committee as per the rules, he said.
Saran was posted as DGP after K P Jain proceeded on leave.
Students face difficulty in filling up CAT online forms
Posted by Admin Madurai Tamilnadu India in Chennai, Education on September 12th, 2009
Students face difficulty in filling up CAT online forms
Meera Srinivasan
| Opportunity was given to students to edit their application |
“Students will be given adequate time to make all changes in their application form”
CHENNAI: With the online registration for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 beginning on Wednesday, some candidates seem to have had difficulty in completing the online application.
Suneet Saxena, for instance, wanted to change the choice of institutions in his application in retrospect.
“I had not seen the option ‘non-IIMs’ while choosing the institutions I wanted to apply for. I think I missed it while scrolling down fast, and could not change it.”
K. Kalpana, another candidate was not sure how to interpret some sections in the online application form and thought that an option to edit would have helped, just in case she had got something wrong.
According to Jaideep Chowdhary, spokesperson of the Triumphant Institute of Management Education (T.I.M.E), some candidates who wished to edit their entries were unable to go back to the previous page and do so. “Some students said the official website had earlier said that there was no option to edit and that they had to purchase a new application form for Rs.1,400,” he told The Hindu.
However, the website later carried a message that said “Candidates will be allowed to edit their personal profile and their application data in about a week’s time leading upto the end of the registration window. The exact date and instructions shall be announced in a few days from now.”
Syed Saleem, manager (operations), IMS Learning Resources, said though students said they had problems, they did not have to worry since the issue was addressed later in the evening.
Satish Deodhar, convenor, CAT centre, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, said they did not anticipate that students would make inadvertent mistakes.
“Some students may have got tensed… some said they had made a mistake while selecting the male or female box and realised it only when they got their admit card via e-mail.”
After feedback from candidates through the toll free number and e-mail, they decided to give them an opportunity to edit their application forms.
Describing the registration and CAT, being held online for the first time, as a “mammoth task,”
Prof. Deodhar said that those students who had already purchased a new application form to make changes would be reimbursed the cost.
“We are writing a new code and the details will be given soon. Students will be given adequate time to make all the necessary changes in their application form,” he assured.
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