Can bar overqualified person from job: SC

Key points

• Supreme Court (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Sometimes overqualification becomes a disqualification.
• At a time when highly qualified people, including PhD holders, are competing for class IV govt jobs, the Supreme Court has said a person could be disqualified for a job if he holds a qualification beyond the maximum prescribed qualification.Noting that an employer's need to have the right people at the right place does not always mean those higher qualified, a bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan said there is nothing wrong in govt's decision putting a cap on the qualification for a post and disqualifying those holding higher degrees."The rationale behind prescribing an upper limit of qualification is both reasonable and equitable, to provide employment opportunities to persons who, owing to circumstances of life, could not pursue higher education," the bench said."The State, as a model employer, is justified in reserving certain categories of posts...