The Class I posts in the Telecommunication Research Centre companysist of the following posts Director Senior Adminstrative Grade Level I Additional Director Senior Administrative Grade Level II Deputy Directors Junior Administrative Grade Assistant Directors Senior Class I Scientific and Technical Officers Grade I Junior Class I .
Kanth, C.V. Subba Rao, Ms. Halida Khatun, N.S. Das Bahl and D.N. Misra for the Respondents.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VENKATARAMIAH, J. The first petitioner in these peti tions is the Telecommunication Research Centre Scientific Officers Class I Association.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Nos.
During the period between 1956 and 1962 and further till 1965 all the Class I posts of the Scientific and Technical Officers Grade I namely Assistant Director and Deputy Director were manned by the Transferred Field Officers belonging to the Indian Telecommunication Service Group A and Group B. For the first time the Union Public Service Commission advertised for the recruitment of 10 Scientific and Technical Officers Grade I in the Telecommunications Research Centre under the Recruitment Rules.
These were General Central Service Class I posts and they companytinue to be so till today.
In response to the said advertisement petitioners 2,3 and 4 applied for recruitment and they were selected for appointment to the posts of ST.O. Grade I. At the time of the filing of these writ petitions there were in all 21 officers who had been recruited at the entry level of Junior Class I posts of S Os Grade I. They were recruited in four batches in 1965, 1967, 1970 and 1973.
