JUDGMENT :

N.H. Bhatt, J.

This is a petition by the petitioner, a member of the backward class community, who was at one time appointed as a Craft Instructor in the Fisheries Department of the State of Gujarat. Prior to 31st January, 1964 he had put in about 8 years of service in some Schools at Baroda, but finding that he had better prospects in the Government service, he quitted the appointment. By the order Annexure 'A' dated 13-1-1964, he was temporarily appointed to officiate as a Craft Instructor at Government School at Baroda because a post had fallen vacant due to reversion of one Shri Lakadawala to the post of an Assistant Craft Instructor. The petitioner went on merely at that post till he came to be relieved from that post by the order of the officer-in charge of the Fisheries Department by his order at Annexure 'E' dated 7-7-1970. The order states that Fisheries School run at Baroda by the Government was decided to be closed. The order further states that the petitioner could not be accommodated in any other equivalent post and so he was absorbed as an Assistant Teacher in some government school at Bulsar. The pay-scale of the post of Craft Instructor was Rs. 225 but at t