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CORRIGENDUM Ref: Commission's Advt. No.08/2022 dated 24.03.22 for the post of Assistant Professor, Group-A Gazetted, Govt. (General) Degree Colleges under the Education (Higher) Department, Govt. of Tripura.
In pursuance of the notification dated No.F.1(435)-DHE/Estt/ (G)/2019/226(04) dated 16-01-2021 the Commission is pleased to issue corrigendum at para 5 of Annexure 'A' as Screening API score followed by selection process of interview with a weightage of 15% and API score weightage of 85% in adherence of New Recruitment Policy, 2018 and further modification in 2020 and UGC regulation, 2018. (enclo Notification).
"100% by direct recruitment through TPSC. Screening API score followed by selection process of interview with a weightage of 15% and API score weightage of 85% in adherence of New Recruitment Policy, 2018 and further modification in 2020 and UGC Regulation, 2018.
Selection process is enclosed as Annexure-A".

This is issued with the concurrence of GA(P&T) Department vide their U.O. No.190/GA(P&T)/21 dated 13.01.2021.

Rest of the contents of the said Notification and Schedule shall remain unchanged.

By order and in the name of the Governor Sd/-(16.01.2021) Joint Secretary to the Government of Tripura Education (Higher) Department.

7. Rival submissions have been made on the proposition as to whether these two notifications if read together would mean granting of weightage of 85% to API score and 15% in personal interview or not. The answer thereto at the first blush lies in reading Clause-4 of Annexure-B quoted above with Annexure-A which lays down the criteria for short-listing of candidates for interview for the post of Assistant Professor in colleges. Out of 100 marks, 85% marks is allotted to API score and 15 is left to personal interview. A combined reading of the notification dated 16.01.2021 and 13.10.2022 along with Annexure-B and A which are to be read with the terms of the advertisement No.08/2022 do leave no room of doubt that while out of total marks, 15 marks are allotted to interview while in computing the API score out of total marks obtained under the API category 85% weightage is only to be given. This is a formula which has been devised by the Education (Higher) Department as per the State's New Recruitment Policy vide notification dated 05.06.2018 and followed by the TPSC as per its Corrigendum dated 13.10.2022 with the only difference that the interview marks would be 15 instead of 10.

16. The second writ petitioner Dr. Shankha Subhra Bhadra has relied upon a certificate of appreciation furnished by the Workshop Patron and Head, Department of Business Administration, Assam University, Silchar dated 24.02.2011. However, the criteria laid down for evaluation of API score under Table 3B (Annexure-A) clearly provides that such 3 marks could be awarded for International/National Level (Awards given by International Organizations/ Government of India/Government of India recognized National Level Bodies and not for certificate of appreciation for participating in a Group Discussion like the one in which the petitioner has participated i.e. dated 24.02.2011 at Annexure-9. The above plea also fails to satisfy the requirement for counting of API score on that criteria as also taken note of by the Screening Committee at the bottom of the footnote of the API scores notified on 15.10.2022 for all such candidates who appeared for the Commerce subject (Annexure-10, dated 15.10.2022).