JUDGMENT

Biswanath Rath, J. - This writ petition involves a challenge to the order of reversion dated 22.3.2018 passed by the Managing Director, Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation Ltd. (in short, 'the Corporation'), O.P.3, particularly involving the person placed at serial no.2 therein, vide Anexure-1 and further to declare the petitioner to be legally entitled to continue and function as an Assistant Engineer (Civil) and the petitioner should not be reverted to the cadre of Junior Engineer (Civil) besides granting all consequential service benefits attached to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) and also entitlement to benefits accrued in the meantime.

2. Factual narrations appearing from the pleadings of the parties are that the petitioner initially joined in the Corporation in the year 1990 as a Junior Engineer (Civil) on regular basis through regular process of selection. In course of his continuing as Junior Engineer (Civil), being a Diploma Holder the petitioner acquired Degree Qualification in Civil Engineering, B.Tech. (Civil) in the year 2009 through distance mode from the JRN Vidyapitha (Deemed University). While the matter stood thus, ten numbers of Graduate Engineers i