IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.17079 of 2011 Date of Decision : September 13, 2011. Tarsem Lal .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Amrik Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner joined the respondent-department as a Sectional Officer on 29.02.1980. He was promoted as Sub Divisional Engineer (for short 'S.D.E.') firstly on temporary basis w.e.f. 21.07.2006 and then on regular basis on 1.11.2010. His grievance is that under the service rules regulating recruitment to the posts of S.D.E., there are roster points earmarked for different sources of recruitment. Various slots are reserved for Sectional Officer/Junior Engineers also. However, in the seniority list prepared for the purpose of promotion as SDEs no such slots have been allotted in accordance with the Government Instructions dated 29.11.2006 and December 21, 2005. The petitioner has raised the above stated issue CWP No.17079 of 2011 [2] vide a representation dated 30.12.2011 (Annexure P-8) also, but without any response thereto. In these circumstances, however without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the petitioner's claim regarding allotment of slots to the Sectional Officers/ Junior Engineers for the purpose of promotion to the posts of S.D.E. and decide his claim by passing a speaking order, within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. September 13, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE