IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 1552 of 1990 Date of decision: 12.11.2010 Meter Readers Association and others ..Petitioners Versus Punjab State Electricity Board ..Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Kanwar Jagtar Singh, Advocate for Mr. Manu K. Bhandari, Advocate for the petitioners. None for the respondent. ***** RITU BAHRI, J.(ORAL) Petitioners have challenged the petition under Article 226/227 of the Consitution of India for quashing the order dated 22.1.1990 Annexure P/6 passed by the Punjab State Electricity Board. Vide this order an arrangement was made by the Board that the post of Meter Readers to the post of Lower Division Clerks as there was shortage of Lower Division Clerks in the Electricity Board. The Meter Readers and Lower Division Clerks formed separate Cadres. Their seniority, promotion and other service benefits were not disturbed by this interim arrangement. Since there is no condition of change in the channel of promotion from the post of Meter Reader, Annexure P-6 does not suffer any infirmity . The respondent in the written statement has specifically mentioned in paragraph 3 that the channel of promotion for the post of Meter Reader is to the post of Meter Inspector as per order dated 2nd June 1987. Thereafter, the next promotion from the post of Meter Inspector is to the post of Junior Engineer. While Annexure P-6, a provision has been made that the services of the Meter Reader can be CWP No. 1552 of 1990 -2- used to the post of Lower Divisional Clerk in their own cadre. This fact is also borne from Annexure P-7 dated 12.7.1982 wherein it has been specifically mentioned that the Meter Readers has a separate cadre. In view of the factual position, the writ petition is dismissed. (RITU BAHRI) 12.11.2010 JUDGE Poonam(II)