ORDER

1. Delay condoned.

2. Leave granted.

3. The admitted facts are that the respondent was appointed on ad hoc basis on 20-5-1969 as a Junior Engineer in Junagadh District Panchayat. Thereafter the Panchayat Services Selection Board was constituted to recruit the candidates for regular appointment. The Board selected and recommended the candidates for regular appointment among whom the respondent was one of the selected candidates. As per the provisional seniority list, the respondent was considered for temporary promotion to the From the Judgment and Order dated 2-9-1993 of the Gujarat High Court in S.A. No. 81 of 1986 post of Deputy Executive Engineer and was appointed on 6-3-1978. Thereafter it would appear that the service of the person working in the Panchayats has been provisionalised and the common seniority list was prepared of the employees belonging to the State service as well as the Panchayat Departments. Therein, the respondents name had figured at Serial No. 69. After issuing show-cause notice to all the persons and after considering their objections, the Government in their proceedings dated 10-11-1981, Annexure 47, determined the inter se seniority. Therein the respo