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4. The grievance of the petitioners is that the Bank, by an advertisement dated 01.07.2024, invited applications for the post of Clerk, but made no provision for any preference or reservation to be given to trained apprentices. Mr. Ashish Pradhan, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted that the Bank has not formulated a policy relating to preference or reservation for apprentices, as required by Section 22 of the Act.
(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. Hargopal3 would permit this.3
(1987) 3 SCC 308.
(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.
13. Insofar as the cases at hand are concerned, we find that the Corporation filed an additional affidavit in CA Nos. 4347-4354 of 1990 (as desired by the Court) on 20-10-1992 giving position regarding vacancies in the posts of conductors and clerks. If such posts be still vacant, we direct the Corporation to act in accordance with what has been stated above regarding the entitlement of the trainees. We make it clear that while considering the cases of the trainees for giving employment in suitable posts, what has been laid down in the Service Regulations of the Corporation shall be followed, except that the trainees would not be required to appear in any written examination, if any provided by the Regulations. It is apparent that before considering the cases of the trainees, the requirement of their names being sponsored by the employment exchange would not be insisted upon. Insofar as the age requirement is concerned, the same shall be relaxed as indicated above."4
apprentices. The policy formulated by the Bank clearly states that such recruitment would be in terms of the Bank's recruitment policy. In the absence of any provision in the recruitment policy providing for a preference to apprentices, or reservation in their favour, no inference can be drawn of such a benefit to apprentices, which would otherwise affect open competition for the post in question.