JUDGMENT

Pattanaik, J.-Leave granted.

2. This appeal by special leave is directed against the Order dated 25.10.1994 of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Nagpur Bench in Transfer Application No. 743 of 1992.

3. The respondents 1 to 4 herein were appointed as Junior Engineers on work charged establishment on different dates by concerned Superintending Engineers of the Circle. Later on they were appointed as Junior Engineers in the regular establishment on different dates. There is no dispute that those respondents had the minimum educational qualification for being appointed as Junior Engineers in the regular establishment. They filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court claiming that their duties and responsibilities on the work charged establishment being the same as Junior Engineers on regualr establishment, the period of service rendered by them as Junior Engineers on work charged establishment should be counted for their seniority after they have been absorbed in the regular establishment. After their absorption, when the seniority list of Junior Engineers was published in respect of Junior Engineers on regular establishment of upto 31.3.1980 as well as in respect of Ju