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For the respondents             :      Mr. Y.P.S. Dhaulta, Additional
                                       Advocate      General,       for
                                       respondents No.1 to 6-State.

                                :      Mr. Adarsh K. Vashista and Mr.
                                       Shivom Vashista, Advocates, for
                                       respondent No.10.
Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge

Respondent No.10's appeal against petitioner's selection and appointment as Part-Time Multi Task Worker has been allowed by the Additional District Magistrate, Chamba. Petitioner feels aggrieved, hence this writ petition.

(i) Pursuant to the selection process undertaken by the official respondents, petitioner was selected and appointed as Part-Time Multi Task Worker at Government Middle School, Kalmala, Tehsil & District Chamba. Appointment order was issued in his favour on 28.07.2022. 1Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes

(ii) Respondent No.10 felt aggrieved against the selection and appointment of the petitioner. Accordingly, as per Part Time Multi Task Worker Policy, 2020, she filed an appeal on 02.09.2022 before the Additional District Magistrate, Chamba. The ground for assailing petitioner's appointment and selection was that the petitioner had been selected and appointed as Part-Time Multi Task Worker for Government Middle School, Kalmala but the school was located at Ward Logran; The petitioner is resident of Village Kalmala, therefore, he was not entitled to 8 marks which could have been allocated to the residents of Ward Logran, where the school was located. The petitioner could have been awarded only 6 marks.

(iii). The aforesaid appeal was allowed on 27.03.2023 (Annexure P-9). Marks allotted to the petitioner were ordered to be changed from 8 to 6. The result-sheet was accordingly directed to be amended.

(iv). The order passed by the Additional District Magistrate, Chamba on 27.03.2023 would have resulted in petitioner losing his appointment as Part Time Multi Task Worker as in that scenario, his total tally of marks would have gone down. Hence, he instituted this writ petition.

2. Vide order dated 03.04.2023 passed in this writ petition, the operation of impugned order dated 27.03.2023 was stayed. Pursuant to the aforesaid protection, petitioner is still continuing to serve as Part-Time Multi Task Worker at GMS Kalmala.

3. To a query of the Court as to why the petitioner did not take recourse to the remedy of appeal provided under Clause 19 of the Part-Time Multi Task Worker Policy, 2020, learned counsel for the petitioner invited attention to following addendum issued by the respondent-Education Department on 25.08.2022:-