The pivotal questions one an interpretative exercise and the other a facet of the fundamental right of equal opportunity around which revolve the other arguments may first be set out: (1) If the Gujarat Government has, by an administrative guideline or statutory rule directed that open market recruits and in service promotees will be ap pointed on a 50: 50 basis with the qualification that this principle shall be adhered to, as far as practicable, is Government free to ignore such a rule of conduct as if it were no inflexible directive, violation of which spells illegality on the appointments made, or does this clause obligate the State flatly to try and comply, but if surprise circumstances or insurmountable exigencies arise which make recourse to the rule impracticable, deviate from it without the risk of court branding such deviant appointments void? In short, how far can (1) Benjamin N. Cardozo: The Nature of the Judicial Proc ess: Yale University Press, P. 174.