JUDGMENT

SAWANT, J.:—The petitioner is a diploma-holder in Engineering and holds the post of Executive Engineer in the respondent-Corporation. Till 1974, the promotional post of the Superintending Engineer was available both for diploma-holders and degree-holders according to merit-cum-seniority. This was so according to the practice followed by the Corporation without making any rules or regulations in that behalf. In 1974, the Corporation made regulations by passing a resolution and continued the same practice. Admittedly, the regulations were not made under Section 64 of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) under which the respondent-Corporation was created. Thereafter in 1988, the Corporation passed a resolution, for the first time, making 75 per cent of the posts of Superintending Engineers available to the Executive Engineers holding degrees and 25 per cent to the Executive Engineers who were diploma-holders. This resolution was also admittedly not a regulation made under the said Section 64. But for this resolution, the petitioner who was senior to respondent No. 2 would have been promoted to the post of Superintending Enginee