ORDER

S.N. Pathak, J. - Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the respondent-State.

2. Petitioner has approached this Court with a prayer for a direction upon the respondents to promote the petitioner in the scale of Headmaster from the date he was entitled for that scale on the ground that the petitioner is M.A. Trained Teacher. Further prayer has been made to consider the case of the petitioner for grant of Assured Career Progression (for short ''ACP'') from the date he was entitled for that.

3. The factual exposition as has been delineated in the writ petition is that petitioner was appointed as Govt. School Teacher vide memo dated 14.02.1980 in the matric trained pay-scale and since then, he was working in the said school with all sincerity and satisfaction of the Respondents. It is the case of the petitioner that he has requisite qualification for promotion on the post of Headmaster as per 1993 Rules. The petitioner was granted 1st time bound promotion on 01.03.1993 and pay fixation was also done on 01.03.1996. It is the further case of the petitioner that he was entitled for promotion on the post of Headmaster and as such, he made an appli