In the same year the respondent No.
They companytended that the eligibility criteria required six years regular service after the educational qualification was obtained.
It was held that the requirement of six years service was independent of the requirement of educational qualifications and the eligibility criteria was fulfilled even if the requisite experience had been obtained before obtaining the educational qualifications.
The Rules regulating the recruitment to the post of Superintending Engineers of the State of Manipur were numberified on 18th October 1977.
This was rejected.
The appellants herein moved an application for review of the order before the Learned Single Judge.
The Rules called The Manipur P.W.D. Irrigation and Flood Control Public Health Engineering Superintending Engineer Civil Superintending Surveyor of Works Recruitment Rules, 1977 provide that the post of Superintending Engineer shall be filled up by promotion from Executive Engineer Civil Mech and Surveyor of Works possessing Degree in Civil Mechanical Engineering or its equivalent from a recognised institution with 6 years regular service in the grade.
1 was eligible to be companysidered for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer in 1991.
The writ application was allowed by the learned Single Judge on 17th March 1993.
All the appellants had Degrees in Engineering before they joined service.
In the writ petitioners case, his period of service after he obtained the AMIE diploma was far short of the requirement and as such, according to the respondents, he companyld number be companysidered for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer.
1 filed a writ application seeking directions on the State Government to companysider his name for promotion to the post as he had put in 12 years service in the grade and possessed the necessary educational qualifications.
The appellants then filed an appeal before the Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court.
The respondent No.
The writ application was opposed by the State Respondents.
1 obtained a Diploma in 1989 having duly qualified in both sections of the Associate Membership Examination of the Institution of Engineers AMIE .
The vacancy in the post of Superintending Engineer arose in 1991.
RUMA PAL, J. The appellants and the respondent No.
1 are all Executive Engineers in the Public Health Engineering Department of the Government of Manipur.
