Punjab Public Service Commission

Purpose of establishing Public Service Commission was to ensure that the recruitment process should be see-through and transparent and only competent persons ought to give way to serve rather than incompetent and unskillful persons

No doubt the recommendations forwarded by the Public Service Commission did not infer the appointment automatically unless approved by the competent authority but at the same time it could not be inferred that the recommendations of Public Service Commission should be divested without any justifiable or justiciable reasons

If the recommendations of Public Service Commission were taken in a cavalier or perfunctory manner, then the entire purpose of constituting the Commission and its infrastructure under the law to regulate recruitment process and undertake burdensome and time-consuming exercise of scrutinizing the applications, conducting tests and interviews, then forwarding recommendations to the competent authority which requisitioned the recruitment process, would be a futile and worthless exercise.

Selection of suitable candidates for appointment on a requisition by various Government Departments is the function of Public Service Commission

Expression "next selection"

Scope of

Procedure for appointment of candidates

No vested right in any candidate for being recommended as a substitute either under the Ordnance or the Regulation-Word "so" appearing as a prefix to the words "requested by the department"-Connotation of

Phrase "substitution of recommendations"-Meaning and scope.

Candidate failing to get qualifying marks in one written paper and also failing to obtain qualifying ;narks in the aggregate-Grace marks

Grant of

Rules for grant of grace marks-Interpretation

Grace marks given for the subject would also be added in the aggregate except that such aggregate, when forming part of the total marks obtained by the candidate inclusive of the viva voce test also, shall not be usable against other competing candidates-Method of using grace marks stated.