S. MANIKUMAR, J.

Respondent, S. Nagaraj, was initially selected and appointed to the post of Steno-Typist through Employment Exchange in Animal Husbandry Department, Chennai, and he joined the said post on 01.08.1983. His services were regularised in the said post on 25.06.1984. He has completed his probation. While so, Secretary to the Governor, Governor's Secretariat, Chennai, State of Tamil Nadu, in his letter, dated 01.09.1987, addressed to all the Heads of Departments in the City of Madras, notified that two posts of Assistants in the Governor's Secretariat, have to be filled up. In the said letter, the Secretary to the Governor, State of Tamil Nadu, has stated, that the method of appointment is, by recruitment by transfer, from among Junior Assistants and Personal Clerks, eligible for appointment as Junior Assistant in the Tamil Nadu Ministerial Service. The qualification prescribed for the said post and the method of recruitment for appointment to the two posts of Assistants in the Governor's Secretariat as per the letter, dated 01.09.1987, are as follows :

Recruitment by Transfer :

(1) must hold a B.A., or B.Sc., B.Com.

(2) must have passed the Government Technical Ex