JUDGMENT

Santosh Hegde, J.-Leave granted in SLP (C) No. 7823/96.

2. In the above writ petitions and civil appeal members of the Tamil Nadu and Haryana State Administrative Services have sought for directions from this Court to the respondents to encadre all the State Deputation Reserve posts, Ex-cadre posts and Temporary posts hitherto manned by the members of the Indian Administrative Service (for short IAS ) for a continuous period exceeding three years, in the IAS cadre. It is their complaint that in their respective States large number of posts which are not included in item 1 of the Schedule to the IAS (Fixation of Cadre Strength) Regulations, 1955 (for short Cadre Regulations ) are being manned by IAS officers and these posts have been in existence for decades together and in spite of the same they are not encadred even though under the Cadre Regulations it is obligatory for the Central Government to do periodical cadre review. Consequent to the failure on the part of the respondents to encadre these large number of posts the petitioners/appellants are denied of their legitimate right of being selected to the IAS by promotion under Rule 8 of the IAS (Recruitment) Rules, 1954