Supreme Court of India
K.K. Dixit & Ors. Etc. v. Rajasthan Housing Board & Anr. Etc.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the Project Engineers (Junior) recruited on the basis of diploma, upon their acquiring the qualification of 'AMIE', are not entitled to count their experience B of service prior to acquisition of such qualification for the purpose of eligibility for promotion to the post of Project Engineer (Senior) against the 20% quota fixed for promotion of degree holder Project Engineers (Junior).
Judgment, page 29
From the headnote
Service law: Seniority list - Preparing two separate seniority lists for c Diploma Holders and Degree Holders for the purpose of promotion in their respective quotas - Held: Board can legitimately prepare separate eligibility lists of Project Engineer (Jr) holding degree and those holding diploma - However, such eligibility list could not be mistaken for seniority list which must remain common based upon merit assessed 9t the time of selection for recruitment - Rajasthan Housing Board Employees Conditions of Recruitment and Promotion Regulations, 1976. Promotion - Seniority list - Dispute
Authorities it was built on
- 1988 Roop Chand Adlakha and Ors. v. Delhi Development Authority and Ors.
- 1991 N. Suresh Nathan and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1992 M.B. Joshi and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Satish Kumar Pandey and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2000 A.K. Raghumani Singh and Ors v. Gopal Chandra Nath and Ors.
- 2006 Shailendra Dania and Ors. v. S.P. Dubey and Ors.
- 1999 Anil Kumar Gupta and Ors. v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Ors.
- 2000 Indian Airlines Ltd. and Ors. v. S. Gopalakrishnan
- 1997 D. Stephen Joseph v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2010 Challa Jaya Bhaskar & Ors. v. Thungathurthi Surender & Ors.
- 1996 Vijay Singh Deora Etc. Etc. v. State of Rajasthan and Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 2004 Chandravathi P.K. and Ors. v. C.K. Saji and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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