1. By Court:-The petitioner in O. P. No. 7-P. C. Kunhikrishnan Nambiar and the petitioner in O. P. No. 459 - K. P. Radhakrishna Menon - are both Deputy Collectors in the service of the Kerala State. They were formerly Deputy Collectors in the Madras State and came to this State on its formation on 1st November 1956. Their main complaint, as it finally emerged at the hearing relates to their non-inclusion in the list of candidates eligible for selection to the Indian Administrative Service. The non-inclusion was on the ground that they did not possess the eight years' qualifying service required by regulation 4 of the Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955.

2. Both the petitioners had requested that their full service, including "temporary" service, as Deputy Collectors should be taken into account in the calculation of their qualifying service. (Temporary, in the special sense of the Madras rules, i. a ., service rendered on appointment under rule 10(a)(i)(1) of Part II of the Madras State and Subordinate Services Rules before the regularisation of that service under rule 23(a)). That request was rejected by the State Government by the