(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) HEARD learned counsel for the parties. The short question that arises for consideration in this appeal is whether an employee to be eligible for promotion to the post of Assistant Executive Engineer under Regulation 14 of the Service Regulation Act, the experience rendered in the parent department in the State government Service before becoming permanently absorbed in the A. P. State Electricity Board can be taken into consideration or not. Under Regulation 14, the post of Assistant Executive Engineer has to be filled by way of promotion and the person to become eligible to get such promotion must possess either BE degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical or Telecommunication of a University in India or any similar qualification recognised as equivalent to such degree or such employee holding LEE, LCE or LME Diploma has ten years experience as Additional Assistant Engineer.

(3) IT appears to us that it has not been indicated in the service regulation that such experience of ten years must be in the service of the State Electricity Board of A. P.. In our view, if an employee of the a A. P. Electricity Board has obtained total experience of