Hon’ble Dinesh Maheshwari, J.—The petitioners, who are the members of Uttar Pradesh Development Authorities Centralized Service Cadre and are presently working as Joint Secretaries in different Development Authorities in the State of Uttar Pradesh, have preferred this writ petition for being aggrieved of the order dated 14.8.2013 whereby, the Secretary to the Government in its Housing and Urban Planning Department has rejected their representation for consideration of their case for promotion to the post of Secretary/Additional Secretary in the Development Authorities.

2. A short point as regards the availability of promotional post and mode of its filling up is involved in the present matter. The factual aspects are otherwise not much in dispute. In brief, the relevant aspects could be noticed in the following:

3. After enactment of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as ‘’the Act’/‘the Act of 1973’) and its amendment in the year 1985, the State Government promulgated the Uttar Pradesh Development Authorities Centralized Services Rules, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Rules’/‘the Rules of 1985’) for the purpose of provi