This Writ Petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking for a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to issue posting orders to the petitioner.

2. The first respondent is a wholly owned Government company and is an instrumentality of the Central Government. It has got several activities such as promoting tourism, marketing its hotels and services, running hotels, organising tours and running free International shops and also offering consultancy managerial service in India and abroad and also providing tourist transport facilities. Petitioner joined the service under the first respondent as Assistant Manager (Marketing and Hotel Sales). He was posted at the Regional Office (South), Chennai by the appointment order dated 3.7.1995 and he joined on 19.7.1995. Subsequently he was posted at Madurai to lookafter the marketing efforts in South Tamil Nadu among the Corporate Houses at Trichy, Karur, Tuticorin, Sivakasi and Rajapalayam and other southern districts. For the aforesaid purpose, the petitioner was stationed at Hotel Madurai Ashok, one of the hotels which was under the management and ownership of the Corporation. Even though salary of the petitioner was being