After a careful companysideration, the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board directs that the Lower Division Clerks, Typists Steno typists and Upper Division Clerks, who have good record of service and companypleted 15 years of service in the same post, shall be exempted from passing the tests prescribed in the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board Service Regulations, Part III as a precondition for promotion to the next higher posts of UD Clerk and Accountant Superintendent, respectively.
The Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board the Board issued an order dated 5 8 1981 which reads as under PERSONNEL SERVICES Dated 5th August, 1981 BPMs No.
The proposal to grant exemption from passing the departmental tests to the Lower Division Clerks, Typists Steno typists and Upper Division Clerks, who have rendered long service in the same post, who are number companyered by the provisions of BP cited, for promotion to next higher category has been under companysideration of the Board for some time past.
173, dated 24 4 1975.
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664 quoted above.
The appellants were given relaxation from passing the test in terms of the above quoted order.
A learned Single Judge of the High Court dismissed the writ petition.
T.A. Ramasastry and various other similarly situated persons challenged the order granting relaxation to the appellants from passing the test.
