JUDGMENT

1. In this petition for direction to opposite parties to promote Petitioner as head master of Junior High School the question that arises for consideration is if the Petitioner's seniority has to be reckoned from the date of their appointment or from the date they completed their training. Undisputedly Petitioner was appointed as Sanskrit teacher in 1962. He joined training course in 1972-73 and passed the same. In 1981 the government issued an order granting relaxation in reckoning of seniority of Sanskrit and Science teachers appointed (described as special teachers) prior to 1968 from training. The order partially modified the Government order dated fact March 1978 and directed that those teachers trained or untrained who were appointed on prescribed scale in the Junior High School shall be entitled to counting of their period as continuous and there shall be no difference in service rendered by them as special teacher and the service in the scale of trained teachers. It was also directed that service of special teachers in basic school maintained by Board shall be deemed to be continuous from the date of appointment if they were appointed prior to 1968. On 11th December