Status quo ordered on 47 WAKF board vacancies

Justice T Raja, on hearing a plea from I Jainulabdeen, a temporary staff of TNWB, ordered status quo on the proposal of the state to hold an exam in this regard on February 20 to fill up the sanctioned vacancies. 

Jainulabdeen had contended that TNWB in 2006 had sought the State to grant sanction for appointments to various posts like Junior Assistants, steno typist and office assistants. 

But during the time the request was pending, TNWB in a bid to cope with work appointed the required personnel on a temporary basis by following the usual selection process. He further claimed that based on this, he was appointed as assistant to the Executive Officer of Wafks in 2007. 

Since then, he had worked as temporary staff for 8 long years maintaining very clean records. But now, the government has sanctioned 47 posts at entry level with the direction that the candidates be selected through the employment exchange. 

Pointing out that he ought to have been absorbed in the relevant post in which he has been working since 2007, he contended that he was 39 years old now while the application published insists that the candidates should not be more than 30 years old. 

He claimed that unless there is an injunction restraining the TNWB from terminating him and filling up the sanctioned posts, he would be put to serious and irreparable hardship.