The petitioner has filed the present petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that a writ or direction may be issued in the nature of mandamus directing and commanding the respondent No. 5 to appoint the petitioner as an officer in the Alakhnanda Gramin Bank like other appointees from the batch of officers selected on the basis of the said respondents indent of March, 1989. He has further prayed that he be given seniority in which the petitioner was selected and he further prayed that respondents be directed that nothing should be done which prejudices petitioners joining new service envisaged for the proposed Rural Bank of India at parity with the other appointees of his batch on the basis of advertisement issued in March, 1989.

2. Brief facts of the petition relating to the present controversy are as follows. The petitioner appeared in the selection examination conducted in March, 1989 by the Banking Service Recruitment Board for tentative vacancies which are likely to occur in different Rural Banks. Exact number of vacancies was not mentioned in the advertisement. The petitioner got a letter of selection dated 31-8-1990, as per annexure N