M G SUNDARESAN Vs. GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition is filed for a direction against the second respondent to pass appropriate orders as per the proceedings dated 30.3.2005 and promote the petitioner in the category of Junior Draughting Officer and grant appropriate fitment of scale of pay as Junior Draughting Officer with monetary benefits in terms of the representation dated 27.9.2008.

(2.) 1. The petitioner was recruited in the Public Works Department in the year 1978 as Blue Print Operator. He was promoted as Assistant Draughtsman in the said department along with 33 other persons. While the services of other Assistant Draughtsmen promoted along with the petitioner were regularized, the petitioner was not considered on the ground of want of qualification. He was reverted to the post of Blue Print Operator. He approached this Court by filing W.P.No,4627 of 1985 and by virtue of the order of stay he continued to work as Assistant Draughtsman in Dharmapuri.

(3.) AS per the recommendations of the second respondent dated 30.3.2005, the benefits have not been paid to the petitioner and the petitioner was deprived of his promotional opportunities which he should have got in 1995 itself. Till the date of retirement the petitioner was not conferred the promotion as Junior Draughting Officer, which post he should have been granted on 12.6.1995, when his immediate senior was promoted. In these circumstances, the present writ petition has been filed for the relief stated supra.