A bank job aspirant filed a case in madras high court against state bank of india for not allowing loan defaulters to apply for their recruitment of 17,000 junior associate (clerical cadre) jobs.He has also sought the court to direct SBI to cancel the recruitment & issue a fresh notification so that all candidates can apply.
State bank of India had notified to fill 17000 junior associates & junior agricultural associates vacancies in March 2016.
In addition to the regular eligibility conditions for age & educational qualifications, the notification had a clause – “In addition to the regular eligibility conditions for age & educational qualifications, the notification had a clause restricting loan repayment defaulters to apply for this recruitment.”
S Gurukrishna Gokul, an aspirant has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) on May 25 with the madurai bench of Madras high court against State Bank of India citing the above condition.
This condition will prevent a large number of economically & socially backward candidates from applying for the posts.If they were appointed, after selection process, they would be able repay the loans", he contended.
“Instead of providing employment for candidates to make them repay loans, the bank is creating more educational loan defaulters by coming up with unreasonable & arbitrary ineligibility conditions".
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“At a time when a large number of poor students were searching for jobs in government & public sector units, this condition made them ineligible to apply for these exams”, he adds.
The bench comprising of Justices R Mahadevan & SS Sundar have issued notices to the SBI chariman & central government asking them to reply within 2 weeks, on the petition seeking to cancel the clerk recruitment & issue a fresh notification.
Will SBI recruitment be cancelled?
Since the court has given two weeks time to explain their stand, what the union govt & SBI have to say on this PIL is yet to be seen.
Whatever it is, their defense should be strong enough to convince the bench because the petition is about employment of lakhs of students.
If you are wondering what could happen next, here are the possible outcomes:
1) If the bench finds fault with SBI, they may strike down the recruitment & order the bank to issue a new notification as sought by the petitioner.
OR
State bank may come up with an alternative solution of opening the application process again so candidates who couldnt apply earlier can register & appear for exams separately.
2) If SBI manages to convince the court by explaining the reasons behind such a rule, then the recruitment MAY NOT be cancelled.But loan defaulters wont be able to participate in SBI recruitments.
Hence the final verdict of this PIL case will have a far reaching impact especially on those students who are completing their degree through loans & aspiring for bank jobs.
Source: BankExamsIndia.com
