JUDGMENT

1. W.P.(C) No.1143 of 2018 has been filed challenging the order dated 30.11.2018 as illegal and to direct the official respondents to conduct a review Departmental Promotion Committee by abiding the office memorandum dated 15.5.2014.

2. The petitioner is a gold medalist in Degree of Fine Arts from the Banaras Hindu University. He pursued Master Degree in Fine Arts in the year 1993 and was awarded Fellowship by the State Kala Academy in the year 1999 and Junior Fellowship Fine Art 2008-2010 Human Resource Development, New Delhi. The petitioner was thereafter appointed as Lecturer in the Imphal Art College vide order dated 15.2.1996. Considering the achievements and works of the petitioner and being the senior-most among the teaching staff of the Imphal Art College, the Deputy Secretary (Art and Culture), Government of Manipur, vide letter dated 14.12.2017 conveyed approval of the Government to allow the petitioner to hold charge of Principal, Imphal Art College, Manipur, as an interim arrangement till a regular Principal is appointed through a competent DPC. The petitioner was working as Principal in-charge of the Imphal Art College for over eleven months. The petitioner was