Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 25: A Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) comprising B Anand and Rajinder Singh Dogra has directed UT of Jammu & Kashmir to convene the DPC and place the cases of the applicants before it for their substantive promotion to the posts of Assistant Regional Transport Officers (ARTOs) retrospectively from the date they were made in-charge of the post with all consequential benefits.
The direction has been passed in an application filed by Mohd Saleem and Shammi Kumar being aggrieved of inaction of respondents in convening the DPC/PSC for the substantive promotion of applicants to the posts of Assistant Regional Transport Officers retrospectively from the date they were made in-charge of the post.
After hearing both the sides, CAT observed, “it clear that the minimum qualification for departmental promotion to the post of ARTO is only seven years of service as Motor Vehicle Inspectors. In other words, no technical qualification has been prescribed for promotion to the post of ARTO. The applicants were promoted as Motor Vehicle Inspectors with effect from the year 2003, as such, by the year 2010, the applicants had attained the required service of seven years for promotion as ARTO. Hence, the applicants are eligible for consideration of their cases for regularization of their promotion to the post of ARTO”.
The CAT directed the respondents to convene the DPC/PSC and to place the cases of the applicants before the DPC/PSC for their substantive promotion to the posts of Assistant Regional Transport Officers retrospectively from the date they were made in-charge of the post, with all consequential benefits.
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