Order on weightage of marks for rural service suspended

A two-judge bench of the High Court comprising the Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice U Durga Prasad on Tuesday suspended the direction issued by a single judge that in-service medical officers, who served in rural/tribal/remote or difficult areas, were entitled to weightage of marks at the rate of 10 per cent for each year of service rendered in those areas subject to a maximum weightage of 30 per cent.

As reported earlier a single judge pointed out that when that was the larger perspective and ideology behind the rural/remote/difficult are posting under the compulsory government service formulation, certainly in- service medical officers like the petitioner, who have rendered rural/tribal service in such rural or difficult areas as per administrative exigencies, were entitled to the benefit.

Dealing with an appeal filed in this regard the bench took on file the appeal and suspended the order of the single judge.