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"12. In the background of what has been noted above, we state that the following would be kept in mind while dealing with the claim of trainees to get employment after successful completion of their training:
(1) Other things being equal, a trained apprentice should be given preference over direct recruits.
(2) For this, a trainee would not be required to get his name sponsored by any employment exchange. The decision of this Court in Union of India v. N. Hargopal would permit this.
(3) If age bar would come in the way of the trainee, the same would be relaxed in accordance with what is stated in this regard, if any, in the service rule concerned. If the service rule be silent on this aspect, relaxation to the extent of the period for which the apprentice had undergone training would be given.
(4) The training institute concerned would maintain a list of the persons trained yearwise. The persons trained earlier would be treated as senior to the persons trained later. In between the trained apprentices, preference shall be given to those who are senior."

Although the Corporation thereafter initiated a recruitment process for appointment of conductors on different occasions, admittedly no recruitment could be completed till 2005. In the meanwhile, the petitioner in 2003 came to be appointed as a contract conductor under the respondents. In 2005, the Corporation initiated a process of recruitment which entailed the appointment of 1500 conductors in the first phase. That advertisement came to be assailed in Vijay Shankar Sharma & others Vs. State of U.P. [Writ Petition No. 16154 of 2005]. Those proceedings were initiated by trained apprentices and contract conductors working in the Corporation claiming weightage as extended to various other categories of employees working under the respondents. The aforesaid petition was partly allowed with the Corporation being commanded to accord weightage to trained apprentices and contract conductors. Pursuant to the judgment rendered a corrigendum came to be issued by the Corporation which too came to be challenged in a writ petition in which an interim order came to be passed. In view of the aforesaid, the recruitment did not progress further.