RAKESH KUMAR THAKUR Vs. MUNGER KSHETRIYA GRAMIN BANK

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Mr. Shrawan Kumar, senior advocate appearing in support of this writ petition and Dr. S.N. Jha, senior Advocate appearing in opposition to the writ petition on behalf of the respondent bank.

(2.) The petitioner is an employee of the Munger Kshetriya Gramin Bank ('the Bank', hereinafter) and holds the rank of an officer in Scale I. He seeks to dispute certain provision of the "promotion modalities" framed by the bank for promotion of officers from Junior Management, Scale I to Middle Management Grade, Scale II. The provison by which the petitioner feels aggrieved stipulates that officers getting 55 out of total of 100 marks in a written test, interview and assessment report would be considered suitable/fit for promotion.

(3.) This writ petition was filed at the threshold of the promotion process. But as it happens, the impugned provision ultimately proved to be the petitioner's undoing and he was denied promotion because he failed to get the minimum prescribed marks in the over all total.