PRADEEP KUMAR DWIVEDI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WE have heard Sri B.B. Paul and Sri Anil Kumar Sharma for the petitioner. Sri Y.K. Sinha along with Sri G.P. Srivastava appears for the respondents.

(2.) THE petitioner was appointed as Clerk -cum -Cashier in Etawah Gramin Bank on 8.9.1982. At present, he is working on the post of Senior Clerk -cum -cashier in the Branch Office, Kunaira.

(3.) BY a notification dated 29.7.1998, a new set of rules, namely, the Regional Rural Banks (Appointment and Promotion of Officers and Other Employees) Rules, 1998, were framed, replacing the old Rules of 1988. By a notification dated 13.7.2010, issued by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, New Delhi dated 13.7.2010, the Regional Rural Banks (Appointment and Promotion of Officers and Other Employees) Rules 2010, were framed, by which the officers and employees of the bank have been classified into three categories, namely, Group -A posts to officers; Group -B posts to Office Assistants (multipurpose) and Group -C posts to Office Attendants (multipurpose).