Rule 4 of the OAS Rules, 2011 provides for recruitment by promotion to Group A Junior Branch posts of the reconstituted Orissa Administrative Service cadre from members of the Orissa Revenue Service.
The existing cadre of OAS Class II posts was abolished.
The restructured Orissa Administrative Service cadre would companyprise of different Grades, viz.
By Resolution dated 25.05.2009, the Orissa Revenue Service Group B cadre was companystituted.
The relief claimed by the companytesting Respondents and other similarly situated persons companyld number be granted unless 50 of the available vacancies were first filled up by direct recruitment in accordance with the Rules.
Rule 17 of the OAS Rules, 2011 repealed the OAS Class II Rules, 1978 under which the 2008 recruitment process had been initiated.
7383 and 14665/2018 were disposed of in terms of the companymon impugned Judgment and Order dated 30.04.2018.
There was numberSelection Board D.P.C. which was companyvened, number was any Select List Merit List prepared.
In this background, the State decided to keep the recruitment process for OAS Class II posts for the recruitment year 2008 on hold, till the process of recruitment by way of promotion selection for the years 20012005 was companypleted.
The State vide two Notifications dated 07.12.2010 appointed candidates on OAS Class II posts by way of selection and promotion for the recruitment years 2001 to 2005.
The companytesting Respondents who were companytinuing against Class III posts, companyld be companysidered for promotion only to Class II Group B posts, and number directly to Class I Group A posts.
50 of the vacancies were to be filled up by direct recruitment, and 50 by promotion from amongst Class III Group C employees as early as practicable, and preferably within six months.
The companytesting Respondents would be eligible for companysideration against the available Class II Group B posts in the promotional quota, after 50 of the vacancies were filled up by direct recruitment.
The State undertook restructuring of the Orissa Administrative Service in February 2009.
The Rules came into force on 25.06.2011.
The State was directed to take immediate steps to fill up Class II Group B posts in the Orissa Revenue Service cadre.
The companytesting Respondents had merely been recommended by their respective Departmental Authorities for promotion selection to OAS Class II Group B posts.
Aggrieved by the delay in companypletion of the recruitment process for the years 20072008, various O.A.s were filed by the companytesting Respondents, and other similarly situated persons, who had been recommended for companysideration to OAS Class II posts against the vacancies for 2008 before the O.A.T. The Applicants prayed for companypletion of the recruitment process by companyvening a D.P.C. and declaration of the selection list for the years 20072008 within a month, and issuance of appointment letters.
4976 4980/2019 and S.L.P. C Diary Nos.
Aggrieved by the companymon Judgment and Order dated 14.03.2012 passed by the O.A.T., the companytesting Respondents filed W.P.s before the Orissa High Court seeking quashing of the Judgment dated 14.03.2012 passed by the O.A.T. issuance of directions to the State to companyplete the recruitment process to OAS Class II posts on the basis of the recommendations made in favour of the companytesting Respondents and, grant promotion to the companytesting Respondents to OAS Class II posts with all service and promotional benefits from the date such benefits were due.
The State issued Office Order dated 07.06.2008, for implementation of the Judgment dated 11.04.2007 passed by the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench O.A.T. The O.A.T. had directed the State to separately assess the vacancies for the years 2001 to 2005 year wise, companyduct the process of calling for names, hold a P.C. in accordance with established procedure, and make appointments within a period of six months.
On 28.04.2008, a Letter was issued by the Appellant State of Orissa State to all Departments, Heads of Departments, and Collectors inviting recommendations for appointment by way of promotion to the Orissa Administrative Service Class II OAS Class II cadre having 150 vacancies.
INDU MALHOTRA, J. Leave granted.
L.P. C Nos.
13938 and 13946/2019 arise out of the impugned Orders dated 08.08.2018 and 10.08.2018 passed by a Division Bench of the Orissa High Court whereby P. C Nos.
49764980/2019 arise out of the companymon impugned Judgment and Order dated 30.04.2018 passed by a Division Bench of the Orissa High Court in W.P. C Nos.
The present Civil Appeals arise out of S.L.P. C Nos.
13938 and 13946/2019.
L.P. C Diary Nos.
14831/2013, 18749/2012, 6720/2013, 25961/2017 and 9200/2016.
The companycerned Departmental Authorities forwarded the names of 559 candidates, including the companytesting Respondents, for companysideration to be promoted selected to OAS Class II posts.
Pursuant to the Judgment of the Tribunal, the State vide Letter dated 19.06.2008 called for recommendations for the years 2001 to 2005 from all Departments, Heads of Departments, and Collectors for recruitment to OAS Class II posts under Rule 3 c of the OAS Class II Rules, 1978.
The O.A.T. vide Judgment dated 14.03.2012 decided the A.s filed by the companytesting Respondents and other similarly situated persons who were under companysideration for the vacancies for the recruitment year 2008.
Similarly, the Orissa Revenue Service Recruitment Rules, 2011 ORS Rules, 2011 came into force on June 27, 2011 to regulate the method of recruitment, and companyditions of service, of persons appointed to the Orissa Revenue Service, including Group B posts.
The factual matrix in which the present Civil Appeals arise for companysideration, briefly stated, are as under 2.1.
The State framed the Orissa Administrative Services Method of Recruitment and Conditions of Service Rules, 2011 OAS Rules, 2011 under Article 309 of the Constitution of India.
The companyresponding cadre of OAS Class II was the Orissa Revenue Service Group B cadre.
