JUDGMENT

P. C. NAIK, J. — The petitioner, who is serving under the opp. party as an Assistant Law Officer, has approached this Court for issuance of an appropriate writ, direction or order commanding the opp. party “to create higher post i.e. Law Officer in the Legal branch of the Corporation and throw open the chances of promotion to the petitioner and pass such other order/orders as the ends of justice requires.”

2. The facts involved in this case are simple.

Admittedly, the petitioner is a Law Graduate. On being sponsored by the State Employment Exchange, Bhubaneswar for the post of Legal Assistant, he was duly selected and appointed as such under the opposite party vide appointment order issued to him on 11.8.1986 which post he joined the same day. It is averred by the petitioner that the Government in various Departments had in December, 1988 redesignated the post of Legal Assistant as Assistant Law Officer carrying the same status and scale of pay. Subsequent thereto, the Corporation also redesignated the post of Legal Assistant under it as Assistant Law Officer without any change of status and pay scale and consequently, the petitioner was designated as the Assistant Law Of