Judgment

S.N. Phukan, J.-The present appeal is directed against the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Guwahati Bench in Original Application No. 23 of 1991. By the impugned judgment the Tribunal rejected the Original Application of the appellants for appointment to Group C posts instead of Group D posts under Divisional Railway Manag­er, Lumding, Assam. We may state here that earlier Group C post was designated as Class III Post and Group D as Class IV post.

2. The facts of the case are as follows:-

All the five appellants were sponsored by the Employment Exchange for recruitment of Trade Apprentices in Carriage & Wagon Department of N.F. Railway in Lumding Division along with others. They were selected as Trade Apprentices under Apprentice Act, 1961 and successfully completed training in System Technical School, New Bonagaigaon under the N.F. Railways. The appellants were interviewed against 25% vacan­cies of Fitter in Group C category for Lumding Loco Repairing Shop and were selected against the vacancies. They also joined as Fitter Grade III but on 7.6.90 the appointments were cancelled and instead they were appointed to the post of Carriage Khalasi which is a Group D p