IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7551 of 1988 (O&M) Date of decision:13.12.2011 Balbir Kumar and others ...Petitioners versus The Punjab State Electricity Board, through its Secretary, and others. ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: None for the petitioners. Ms. Geeta Sharma, Advocate, for the respondents. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) There is no representation for the petitioners. The writ petition contains a challenge to a promotion policy made by the Electricity Board fixing a 20% quota for promotion from the post of Assistant Linesman to the post of Linesmen, on the basis that the candidate must have passed matriculation examination with 5 years experience in the Board. It has come through decisions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court that prescription of educational qualification for higher posts cannot be stated to be arbitrary and the employer will be the best judge to set down qualifications for promotion. I Civil Writ Petition No.7551 of 1988 (O&M) - 2 - find nothing arbitrary in the approach of the Electricity Board and a challenge to the policy must fail and accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 13.12.2011 sanjeev