Chinnappa Reddy, J.

(1) SEVERAL hundred Railway Engineers who should have been busy elsewhere, building bridges, laying-or doubling tracks and so on have found themselves in the corridors of this court in pursuit of the loaves of career. Quite a contingent was present in court anxiously watching the proceedings and listening with rapt attention to every word that fell from counsel and judge. One could not help wondering whether this multi-tiered,multi-varna service-system was itself not productive of a career neurosis, destructive of the very efficiency which it sought to achieve.

(2) IN this case, as in most other service matters that reach this court, the questions which arise for, consideration relate to classification, confirmation, seniority, promotion etc., questions which appear to agitate the minds of the members of all services. Administrators seeking to find solutions to some of the problems very soon discover that their solutions are no more than illusions and have created other problems. First one party and then another party, all seek the protection of the court. The court is no expert administrator. Lacking expertise, lacking the administr