MUKUL MUDGAL,J. (ORAL), J.

( 1 ) RULE DB. With the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, this writ petition is taken up for final hearing. This writ petition challenges the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) dated 25th April 2005 rejecting the O. A. 1463/2004 filed by the petitioner. The petitioner herein has been working on the post of Deputy Drugs Controller since 1986 in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (hereinafter referred to as "mhfw" ). The petitioner is Non Medical Scientist in the Department of Directorate General health Services (hereinafter referred to as "dghs") under the MHFW and was aggrieved by the fact that even though he was inducted into the service by direct recruitment through a rigorous process of selection conducted by UPSC, there was no promotion avenues, when compared with the Non Medical Scientists, employed in other departments of Government of India such as ICMR, AIIMS, or pgi, Chandigarh. Consequently, Dr. O. Z. Hussain, the president of the National council of Bio-Medical Scientists, filed a Writ Petition in the Hon'ble Supreme court titled as Dr. Ms. O. Z. Hussain v. Union of India, 1990 (suppl) SCC 688, under Article