Out of these, the allocation for the Signal and Telecommunication Department was 76.
There was virtually stagnation of a number of Group B Officers who as already stated were working on ad hoc basis in Senior Scale vacancies of Group A. With a view to discontinue the ad hoc arrangements and to give better promotional opportunities to Group B Officers who were stagnating without regular promotion, the Ministry of Railways proposed additional posts in Junior Time Scale number only in Signal and Telecommunication Department, with which we are companycerned, but also in various other departments of Railways.
574 of 1993, the present appeal has been filed by the second respondent in O.A., which is an Association of Class II Railway Officers and one of the respondents in the A. The O.A. was filed in the C.A.T. by six Class I Officers working as Assistant Signal and Telecommunication Engineers ASTEs , who are respondents 1 to 6 herein.
Venkatarama Reddi, J. Aggrieved by the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal A.T. Principal Bench, passed on 4.8.1995 in O.A. No.
These additional posts 76 were to be filled by promotion of Group B Officers in relaxation of the numbermal quota and such variation of quota was permissible, according to the Railways, under Rule 4 b of the relevant recruitment Rules.
As against 654 additional posts proposed by the Railways, the UPSC agreed for creation of 463 posts.
