By means of these writ petitions, being W.P(C) No.488 of 2015 (Smt. Soma Pal vs. The State of Tripura), W.P(C) No.489 of 2015 (Smt. Sarmistha Majumder vs. The State of Tripura) and being W.P(C) No.490 of 2015 (Smt. Chandrani Chakraborty vs. The State of Tripura), the petitioners who were appointed to the post of the Senior Instructor, Group-C (Non-Gazetted) in the Tripura Institute of Technology, the TIT in short, under the Higher Education Department, formerly known as the Polytechnic Institute have urged for direction to consider them for promotion to the post of Foreman Instructor preceded by a declaration that the petitioners are eligible for such consideration. Alternatively, the petitioners have urged for direction on the respondents to ‘create a promotional avenue for the further post’. Sans a little variation somewhere in the fact, the core question involved, these writ petitions are identical and hence, clubbed together for disposal by a common judgment.

2. There is no dispute that the writ petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 488 of 2015, namely Smt. Soma Pal and the writ