Kathmandu, June 26

The Supreme Court has rescheduled its hearing on the cases filed against the Public Service Commission’s job advertisement to recruit over 9,000 employees at local levels.

A division bench of justices Hari Krishna Karki and Ananda Mohan Bhattarai rescheduled the hearing for June 30, saying the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives, which has been named a defendant, is yet to receive notification about the case. The bench decided to send notice to the House panel before it could conduct hearing to decide whether or not the PSC’s job advertisements should be halted.

Advocate Rajaram Ghimire had filed a petition seeking repeal of SAGGC’s directives to halt PSC job advert. Advocate Jagadev Chaudhary had filed the petition seeking to halt PSC job adverts, arguing that the advertisement violated principle of proportional inclusion.

PSC has said it failed to allot seats for all social clusters at local levels in its advert, mainly due to lack of seats to accommodate them.