ORDER

Hon’ble Mr. RajinderKashyap, Member (A):

By filing the present OA under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 , the applicants are seeking the following reliefs:-

“(a) To declare the action of respondents in not treating the applicants promotion to the post of EE (C) as regular from the date of grant of Adhoc promotion as illegal and issue appropriate direction to the respondents to treat the Adhoc promotion of applicants as EE (C) as regular and fix their seniority as EE (C) from the date of grant of Adhoc promotion as EE (C).

(b) To direct the respondents to treat the promotion of applicants to the post of EE as regular and consider their claim for further promotion to the post of SE (C), Addl. Chief Engineer (C) & Chief Engineer (C) by holding yearwise DPC and subject to meeting the eligibility criteria as per rules.

(c) To allow the OA with cost.”

2. Pursuant to notice issued by this Tribunal, the respondents have filed their replies opposing the claim of the applicants.

FACTS OF THE CASE

3. It is stated by the applicants that all the applicants, except applicant no. 5, were initially appointed as Assistant Engineer (Civil) [AE (C)] through the direct recruitment