ORDER

By Ms. Mallika Arya, AM

The applicant is belonging to the State Civil Services of MP. The name of the applicant did not figure in the notification whereas respondents No. 4 to 10 who were junior to the applicant in the State Civil Service got appointed to the IAS. The applicant submits that he has been superseded by his juniors on account of non-consideration of his candidature. He has been declared solely ‘unfit’ on the basis of un-communicated ACRs for the period ending March 2008. The applicant has further reasons to believe that the Selection Committee downgraded the ACR of the applicant for the remaining years under the garb of overall assessment. No reasons whatsoever have been recorded by the Selection Committee for not accepting the grading awarded by the departmental authority. Therefore, the applicant alleges that the entire selection process is tainted with arbitrariness.

2. In accordance with the provisions contained in the IAS Recruitment Rules of 1955 the Central Government determined a total number of 8 vacancies in the promotion quota for the State of MP for the year 2010 and 21 vacancies for the year 2011. The name of the applicant in the State Civil Services as