Honble KOKJE, ACTG. CJ.–The petitioners, in these cases, are Class IV servants in Government Departments, who have acquired a qualification equivalent to Secondary School Examination like Rashtra Bhasha Parichay from Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiti, Vardha; Prathama from Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag, Allahabad etc. Some of them are working in the State Secretariate and some are working in other Government Departments. Class III employees of the Secretariate are governed by the Rajasthan Secretariate Ministerial Service Rules, 1970 and those Class Ill servants belonging to other departments are governed by the Rajasthan Subordinate Offices Ministerial Staff Rules, 1957 (for short, the Rules, 1970 and 1957). In both the Rules, there is a provision for promotion from Class IV posts to Class Ill posts of Lower Division Clerks. The petitioners are desirous of promotion to the post of L.D.C.

(2). Eligibility for promotion to the post of L.D.C. under the 1957 Rules was Secondary School Examination or its equivalent Examination recognised by the Government. Thereafter, under the amended rules, qualifications equivalent to Secondary School Examination were deleted from the rule relating to e

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