ORDER

Leave granted.

2. We have heard the counsel on both sides. The appellant was appointed as a Junior Laboratory Technician in the Department of Family Health and Family Welfare Service on May 3, 1979. He had applied on September 16, 1986 for transfer and posting him as Ist Divisional Assistant in the same Department. By proceedings dated October 28, 1986, he was posted as a 1st Divisional Assistant in the same department. Karnataka Civil Services (Time Bound Advancement) Rules, 1983) provide for giving advance increment, under Rule 16 thereof to the candidate who has completed 10 years of service but was not promoted to a higher post. The appellant had applied for grant of the said benefit in 1989. By proceedings dated October 15, 1989, the same was rejected. Consequently, he filed a representation in the Administrative Tribunal which by its order dated January 13, 1993 in Application No. 1545/92 dismissed the same. Thus this appeal by special leave.

3. Shri P.R. Ramesh, the learned counsel for the appellant, contended that the descriptive criteria prescribed in Rule 3 clause (a) of the Rules must be read analogous to the work charged service or the service put up by a local