JUDGMENT :

(Ajay Mohan Goel, J.)

1. The controversy involved in the present petition is in a very narrow compass.

2. The petitioner before this Court was engaged as Water Carrier in the year 2001 on temporary/contract basis in the Education Department. After completion of fifteen years of service, she was regularized as a Peon In Government Senior Secondary School, Tal, Hamirpur, District Hamirpur, H.P. w.e.f. 21.11.2016. The next promotional post from the post of Peon is that of Lab Attendant and it is undisputed that a Class-IV Employee is eligible for promotion to the post of Lab Attendant after completion of five years of service as a Class-IV employee, provided the candidate is possessing the requisite qualification of being a matriculate.

3. The grievance of the petitioner is that though, she did her matriculation in terms of Annexure P-2 from Grameen Mukt Vidhyalayi Shiksha Sansthan in the academic session 2018-2019, yet when the contemporaries of the petitioner were promoted against the post of Laboratory Attendant vide Annexure P-7, dated 26.03.2022, the name of the petitioner did not figure therein and when she made inquiries she was informed that she was not considered for p