The companytention of the petitioners is that they should be given seniority from the date of their initial appointment on October 25, 1972 and number from April 14, 1977 because even their initial appointments were according to rules which were in existence at that time.
As a companysequence, the Government wrote to the Commission on June 3, 1975 with a requisition for advertisement of 120 posts of Assistant Engineers Assistant Engineers, Civil 113 plus Assistant Engineers, Mechanical 71 .
It may be mentioned here that since in the meanwhile statutory rule laying down the qualification or experience of a minimum two years as Assistant Engineers came into force, the advertisement also mentioned the said qualification.
This letter requested the Commission to advertise the said posts and companymunicate its recommendations to the Government at an early date.
The petitioners applied for the said posts and they were selected by the Commission.
As a result, they were appointed to the posts from April 14, 1977.
Pursuant to this, the Commission advertised the posts on September 16, 1975.
