PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J. (ORAL) 1. Rule DB.

2. Heard for disposal.

3. Instant case is a classic example as to how the Government breeds litigation notwithstanding repeated public posturing by the executive that the house of the Government is being put in order.

4. Various persons working in Group D? posts under the Union of India were made to work for long duration as LDCs on ad-hoc basis.

5. They made repeated representations that their services be regularized and showed to the authority concerned the source of the power for the authority concerned to do the needful; namely, Rule 12 of the CSCS Rules 1962 which reads as under:

"12 Recruitment to the Lower Division Grade of the Service-

(1) Vacancies in the Lower Division Grade shall be filled in the following manner, namely:-

(a) Fifteen percent of vacancies in each cadre may be filled by appointment, by promotion, of Group D employees borne on regular establishments working in the Ministries and offices participating in the Central Secretariat Clerical Service, in the following manner, namely :-

(i) Ten percent of the vacancies may be filled on the basis of qualifying examinations held for this purpose by the Staff Selectio