ORDER

Dr. B.R. Sarangi, J. - The petitioner, who was working as Lady Assistant Surgeon, Police Hospital, Rourkela in the district of Sundargarh, has filed this writ petition essentially for issuance of a direction to the opposite parties to pay interest @ 12% per annum on the ground of delayed payment of arrear salary for the period from 01.01.1996 to 08.06.1999 amounting Rs.77,716/-, and other consequential benefits incidental thereto, in her favour.

2. The facts of the case, in brief, are that the petitioner joined as Assistant Surgeon under the Govt. of Odisha, Health and Family Welfare Department in January, 1985 and was posted at District Headquarter Hospital, Sambalpur. Thereafter, she worked under such capacity in different Govt. Hospitals till July, 1992, when she was transferred to Police Hospital, Rourkela under the administrative control of the Superintendent of Police, Rourkela. While she was continuing there, she crossed her Efficiency Bar in May, 1995 after reaching the appropriate scale and her Efficiency Bar crossing proposal was to be sent by the Superintendent of Police, Rourkela to the Government through proper channel for timely sanction, but the same was not reco