IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA. CWP No. 2410 of 2010. Decided on: 24th May, 2010. Madan Lal Joshi. ….. Petitioner. Versus State of H.P. and ors. …… Respondents. Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surinder Singh, Judge. For the petitioner : Mr. J.L. Bhardwaj, Advocate. For the Respondents : Mr. R.K. Sharma, Sr. Addl. Advocate General, for respondents No.1 and 2. Mr. D.K. Khanna, Advocate, for respondent No.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. (Oral) The writ petition is filed with the following prayer: “(i) That the writ in the nature of mandamus may kindly be issued directing the respondents to convene the Departmental Promotion Committee for the posts of District Controllers and the petitioner who is eligible under the rules may kindly be considered for the said post and in case, he is found eligible as the Recruitment and Promotion appended as Annexure P-3, he may be offered the appointment as District Controller before 31.5.2010, the date on which 2 he is going to superannuate and justice be done.” It is seen that the petitioner is due to superannuate on 31.5.2010. According to the petitioner, in case the timely action is taken for convening DPC, the petitioner is likely to be included in the select list and get promotion. It is also submitted that the proceedings have been initiated as per Annexure P-5. Since there is hardly a week only left, whether it is possible to have the whole thing finalized before that date is doubtful. Be that as it may. There will be a direction to the first respondent to take action on Annexure P-4, representation as recommended by the Director in Annexure P-5 preferably before the end of this month. In case in the unlikely event of the proceedings not being finalized before that date, the first respondent will consider as to whether it is feasible to provisionally promote the petitioner in case he is otherwise eligible and due for promotion before the date of the superannuation. The petitioner will produce a copy of this judgment before the first respondent immediately. The writ petition is disposed of, so also the pending application. Dasti copy. (Justice Kurian Joseph), Chief Justice 24th May, 2010 ( Justice Surinder Singh), (tr) Judge. 3