R. Banumathi, J.

1. Challenge in this appeal is the order in W.P.No.21947 of 2009 (18.10.2011) declining to quash the impugned Proceedings in Ref.No.A2/69295/08 dt. 03.9.2009 and also declining to issue direction to the Respondents for inclusion of Appellant's name in the panel of Rangers fit for promotion as Assistant Conservator of Forests by recruitment by transfer for the year 1998-99 and grant all consequential service and monetary benefits.

2. Facts leading to filing of Writ Petition are as follows:-

Appellant is a graduate in Science and was appointed as Forest Ranger through a selection conducted by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission in the year 1980-81 and was appointed as Forest Ranger in the Forest Department on 01.11.1980. Appellant was promoted as Assistant Conservator of Forest in the panel year 2000-2001. Case of Appellant is that names of directly recruited Forest Rangers of the year 1980 for promotion as Assistant Conservator of Forests was taken up for consideration for the year 1998-99. The crucial date for preparation of panel for the year 1998-99 was 15.8.1997, but the panel was published on 12.12.2001, in G.O.Ms.No.194 Environmental & Forest (FR.1)