Rampalit Vyakaran Acharya And Ors. vs Punjab University, Chandigarh And Anr. on 22 September, 1975
Similar was the position in
Ramphalit Vyakaran Acharya's case (supra)
where again it appears that the equivalent
qualification was acceptable and, therefore, the
degree of Acharya was treated as equivalent to
that of M.A.
Reliance upon the Central Government
letter dated 21.11.1990 issued by the Ministry
of Personnel, PG & Pensions (Department of
Personnel & Training, New Delhi, to contend
that the Acharya degree is equivalent to the
M.A. degree, cannot be pressed into service to
the benefit of the petitioners as it is the right,
privilege and prerogative of the employer to
accept a particular qualification as equivalent or
not. In any case, in the present case, there is no
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question of treating an equivalent qualification
when there is no such discretion provided for
under the statutory rules."