The Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi, has allowed an Original Application filed by a candidate who cleared the Combined Geo-Scientist Examination, 2020, but was denied appointment to the post of Geologist in the Geological Survey of India on the ground that his disability did not match the functional classification notified in the advertisement. The Tribunal, acting on a remand from the Delhi High Court, accepted the medical opinion of a board constituted at AIIMS, New Delhi, which found the applicant to have 52% permanent physical impairment in the right lower limb only, thereby meeting the One Leg (OL) affected criterion. The Tribunal quashed the rejection order, directed re-appointment with consequential benefits, but denied back wages on the principle of no work no pay.
