( 1 ) AN employee has no right to promotion, but only has a right to be considered for the promotion is often quoted passage. This thinking equally applies to a selection post also. In the present case an employee of New Mangalore Port Trust complains his non-selection to the promotional post and griefs at the selection of second respondent to the promotional post.

( 2 ) FACTS may briefly be noticed. They are as under: petitioner and eleven others were appointed as Assistant Traffic Managers by the New Mangalore Port Trust, Mangalore, hereinafter referred to for the sake of brevity as 'port Trust' vide their letters of appointment dated 23-4-1984. By a subsequent order dated, 5-7-1985, their services came to be regularised with effect from the date of their initial appointment to the post.

( 3 ) THE Port Trust has prepared and published the gradation list of Assistant Traffic Managers of its organisation. In that list petitioner was assigned ranking at Sl. No. 2 and the respondent 2 at sl. No. 8. It appears that the prestigious post of Deputy Traffic Manager was created by the Port trust sometime in the year 1988 and the post requires to be filled up by promotion from the feeder

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