However, on account of problems which arose relating to the seniority of the appellants qua the existing wiremen, the General Manager of North Eastern railway by issuing order dated 24.9.1984, decided to put the appellants in the category of carpenter which was the category in which they were initially appointed.
The appellants had, in the meanwhile, in 1984 filed a suit for a declaration that they were eligible to appear for the test for promotion to the highly skilled wireman Grade II posts.
Their names were removed from the seniority list of wiremen.
Now, on account of administrative reasons the appellants have been posted as carpenter instead of wiremen when the category of carpenter cum wireman was proposed to be abolished.Since they were absorbed as wiremen.
The suit was decreed.
The post of carpenter is also a post to which the appellants were originally appointed.
Thereafter they were posted as wiremen.
