(1) THIS appeal is filed by the Banking Service Recruitment Board, Madras. It pertains to the recruitments made, inter alia, to the post of Cooperative Officers in Indian Bank and Indian Overseas Bank pursuant to an advertisement issued in July 1979. The advertisement pertains to several posts. The relevant posts for the present purpose are ten posts of Cooperative Officers in Indian Overseas Bank. As per the advertisement, the candidates applying for all the posts so advertised would be called for a written examination which would be both objective and descriptive. Candidates who were ranked sufficiently high on the basis of their marks in the written examination will be called for interview. The final selection will be on the basis of the aggregate marks obtained by the candidate in the preliminary examination and interview and will be strictly according to merit.

(2) ACCORDINGLY on 9/12/1979, the written examination was conducted through an independent agency namely, the National Institute of Bank Management which was then in existence. Candidates were examined in four papers namely, (1 Test of Proficiency, (2 Test of English Language, (3 Test of Quantitative Apti