Kuldip Singh, J.

1. Petitioner was initially appointed as Lower Division Clerk on regular basis in the erstwhile Haryana State Electricity Board (now succeeded by Haryana Power General Corporation Limited) on 19.3.1971. He was promoted as Divisional Accountant w.e.f. 16.7.1979 and was promoted as Section Officer only on 20.2.2004. In the meanwhile, the Haryana State Electricity Board introduced Assured Career Progression Scheme w.e.f. 1.1.1996 vide office order No.706/ Finance dated 27.2.1998. Under the said Scheme, if a particular employee having regular satisfactory service of minimum period of 10 years has not got any financial upgradation in terms of grant of pay scale higher than the functional pay scale prescribed for the post as on 31.12.1995, he is eligible to be placed in first ACP scale. Similar condition was there for second ACP on completion of 20 years of service. The petitioner retired from service on 30.6.2009. His claim in the present petition is that he was not granted that first ACP and second ACP on completion of 10 and 20 years of service. It further comes out that during the pendency of the writ petition, the respondents have passed an order dated 26.1