ORDER

Hon’ble Ms. Harvinder Kaur Oberoi, Member (J):

Brief facts of the case as narrated in the OA are that the applicant joined the subordinate cadre service on 03.07.1997 as Small Industry Promotion Officer (SIPO) in the office of the Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (DC–MSME), having been selected through UPSC under the Direct Recruitment quota, pursuant to the recruitment process initiated on 13.04.1994 in response to the DPC held on 12.02.1994 for vacancies accrued during the period from 31.03.1988 to 31.03.1993.

2. On 02.11.2000, the Final Seniority List of SIPOs was circulated by DC–MSME vide letter No. A-23020/1/2000-A (NG) dated 02.11.2000, which suffered from various illegalities, including absence of clear seniority dates, alteration of the existing rota-quota ratio from DR:PR 75:25 to 40:60, and placement of purely ad-hoc promotee SIPOs nearly six years above direct recruit SIPOs.

3. The Hon’ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh, vide judgment dated 19.04.2004 in WP No. 6109/2004 ( V.K.K. Nadimpalli