ORDER :- The petitioner was appointed as a temporary Accounts Supervisor in the Agriculture Department in the scale of Rs. 60-4-80-4-100 by the Director of Agriculture on the 26th of March, 1947, and was posted under the Deputy Director of Agriculture, Eastern Circle, Pratapgarh, where he joined his duties on the 1st of April, 1947. Thereafter by an order dated the 15th of February, 1949, he was transferred to the Agricultural Engineering Department as a temporary Assistant Accountant by the Director of Agriculture and was posted under the Agricultural Engineer (Tractors), Lucknow, of which post he took charge on the 19th of February, 1949. By an order of the Chief Agricultural Engineer, Kanpur dated the 9th of January, 1952 the petitioner was provisionally confirmed on a permanent pensionable post of Accounts Supervisor with affect from the 11th of July, 1949, by the order dated the 9th of January, 1952. The Agricultural Engineering Department was abolished on the 24th of August, 1952, and was merged in the Irrigation Department known as the Agricultural Engineering Circle of the Irrigation Department being in charge of a Superintending Engineer. On the 29th of June, 195