JUDGMENT

Dalveer Bhandari, J.—This appeal is directed against the judgment of the Madhya Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Bhopal Bench at Bhopal, M.P. in Transfer Application No. 333 of 1988 dated 7.5.1996.

2. Brief facts which are necessary to dispose of this appeal are as under :

3. The appellant was appointed on 18.10.1967 vide Order No. 6857/8432/ 14-1 on the post of Assistant Agriculture Engineer in the department of Agriculture in the State of Madhya Pradesh. He on his own volition on 2.7.1975 requested to be transferred and absorbed in the department of Irrigation. The appellant made the request for transfer because there were limited chances of promotion in the department of Agriculture and there were greater opportunities of promotion in the Irrigation department.

4. According to the stand of the respondents, the department of Irrigation is a separate department from the Agriculture department and both the departments maintain their separate seniority lists. Both the departments were under the control of the State of Madhya Pradesh, but the service conditions of the employees in both the departments are governed by their respective rules and guidelines. In both the dep