CHENNAI: The State government is at liberty to issue appointment/posting orders to the selected candidates for the post of village administrative officers (VAOs) within four weeks, the Madras High Court has said.Justice K Suguna made the observation while passing interim orders on a batch of writ petitions seeking to quash a notification dated July 21, 2010, of the TN Public Service Commission, as far as it earmarked 1,077 posts of VAOs as shortfall vacancies for SC/STs.Petitioners claimed that the shortfall of SC/ST vacancies for the VAO posts was only 197. But the notification erroneously earmarked 1,077 posts, which affected the chances of other community candidates. Advocate-General A Navaneethakrishnan submitted that the total number of shortfall vacancies for SC/ST was about 1,232.The judge observed that the strength of vacancies could be dealt with only at the time of final disposal of the writ petitions. If actually, any excess quota had been reserved for SC/ST, the same could be adjusted in the future selections. As far as the present position was cocnerned, according to both the sides, the selection was already over and the selection list had also been announced. Apart from this, the post of VAOs was a very important one with regard to local administration. “For these reasons, the interim (stay) order already granted is not extended and the stay petitions filed in the writ petitions are dismissed and consequently, the vacate stay petitions are closed and the respondents (government) are at liberty to issue posting orders within four weeks,’’ the judge said on December 23.
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