In this application the petitioners have complained of the violation of an order passed by this Court on 2.9.92.

2. Prior to 1986 the petitioners were in service under the State, in the State Water Investigation Directorate Department of Agriculture (Minor Irrigation Wing) (referred to as the Directorate.) The cadre comprised of Lower Division Clerks (LDCs) and Typist-cum-Clerks. There was a single gradation list for this cadre. In 1986, the single or common gradation list was split into two and two separate cadres were created one of Lower Division Clerks and the other of Typist-cum-Clerks.

3. The writ petitioners have been harbouring grievances since 1988 that they should be treated as Clerk-cum-Typist instead of Lower Division Clerk in the Directorate. This was because the promotion to the next higher grade was from both the cadres and following the effect of the split, the Clerk-cum-Typists had better prospects of promotion than the LDCs. It was stated that because of the failure on the part of the respondents to allow the petitioners to be part of the Typist-cum-Clerk cadre, the petitioners had been superseded by their juniors.

4. On 13.1.89 the petitioners moved a writ appl