The petitioner is working as an Assistant Manager (Typesetting) in the services of the 1st respondent, which is an autonomous Society registered under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act. He was promoted as such with effect from 1-3-1986. He availed of leave without allowances for the period from 14-11-1992 to 12-11-1997 and rejoined duty on 13-11-1997. Thereafter, he completed 10 years of actual service on 1-3-2001. Since all Assistant Managers in the Society were being given higher grade in the scale of pay of Rs.8250-13650 and redesignation of the post as Deputy Manager on completion of 10 years of service, the petitioner put in Ext.P4 representation dated 26-2-2001 before the 1st respondent claiming the said benefits. The governing body of the Society which met on 10-7-2001 approved the proposal of giving time bound higher grade and redesignation as Deputy Manager to the petitioner as was done in the case of other Deputy Managers. However, unlike in earlier cases, the governing body decided to seek approval of the Government for the decision. Accordingly, by Ext.P8 communication, the Managing Director sought the appro