IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.756 of 2011 Date of Decision : February 04, 2011. Mukhtiar Singh and others .....Petitioners versus Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Gurvinder Singh Dhillon, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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 petitioners are working as Godown Attendants in the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation. Their grievance is that while removing the stagnation in the service career of the petitioners, the Board of Directors of the respondent-Corporation though have upgraded the petitioners as Class-III employees and has constituted a common cadre with Clerks for promotion to the posts of Technical Assistants and Godown Assistants yet they would remain stagnated as they have been placed below the Clerks in the seniority list and being junior most would have no chance of promotion. On this premise, it is urged that the only recourse to remove the stagnation is to provide suitable quota exclusively for the petitioners for promotion as Godown Assistants. C.W.P.No .756 of 2011 2 Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners at some length and on perusal of the material on record, it appears desirable for every model employer to provide adequate promotional avenues to remove stagnation in the service career of the employees who have served sufficiently long. The mechanism to remove the stagnation is a policy decision which exclusively falls within the domain of the competent authority. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Managing Director of the Punjab Warehousing Corporation to treat this writ petition as a representation on behalf of the petitioners and consider as to whether or not the previous decision taken by the Managing Director of the Corporation needs to be suitably modified. The appropriate reasoned order shall be passed by the competent authority as early as possible and preferably within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. February 04, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE