1 The petitioner is a Senior Inspector in the Cooperative Department of the Kerala State. He is a graduate and has passed the obligatory departmental tests. He says that he was entitled to be promoted as Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies. Consequent on the reorganisation of States, respondents 3 to 34 were allotted to Kerala State from Madras. In Madras State there were three categories of officers in the Executive Staff of the Madras Cooperative Subordinate Service, namely, Sub-Registrars, Senior Inspectors and Junior Inspectors. On 1.8.1958, the Cooperative Department of the Kerala State was reorganised. The Sub-Registrars allotted from Madras State were equated with the senior Inspectors grade I of the erstwhile Travancore - Cochin State. Senior Inspectors from Madras State were integrated with the Cooperative Inspectors Grade II of the erstwhile Travancore - Cochin State. The Junior Inspectors from Madras were placed one block below the newly integrated junior inspectors. That two integrated categories were designated as Senior Inspectors viz., those consisting of sub- Registrars of Madras and the Inspectors Grade No. 1 of the Travancore - Cochin State; and Junior In