CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.12379 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.12379 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION: OCTOBER 6, 2010 Shri Sardar Singh .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and other ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH. PRESENT: Mr. Vipin Yadav, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Maloo Chahal, DAG, Haryana for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner, who was appointed on the post of Supervisor on 31.5.1980, has approached this Court for seeking direction to the respondents to consider him for promotion on the post of Road Inspector being senior in the cadre. As per the petitioner, no complaint is pending against him and he has also qualified the departmental examination for the said post. As per the averment, there were seven vacancies for the post of Road Inspector and the name of the petitioner was at Sr. No.5 of the seniority list. As per the petitioner, some posts are lying vacant. The petitioner, accordingly, seeks a direction for promotion to the post of Road Inspector. In response to the notice, reply is filed. It is stated that no promotional order of any employee has so far been passed CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.12379 of 2010 -2- by the competent authority. The promotional process of the petitioner is in progress, as such he has to wait for the process to finalize. The petitioner may have a grouse that his case is not being considered for promotion for considerable period. Consideration for promotion is a right though grant thereof cannot be sought by way of a mandamus. It is always fair to timely consider the case of the employees for promotion when there is a vacancy, so that there is no loss to the employees due to delayed promotion. The petitioner has also filed the representation dated 18.10.2009, which is pending consideration. Though no direction for promoting the petitioner can appropriately be issued, however, the present writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the representation pending with them and to pass an appropriate order on the same, in accordance with law. October 06, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) monika JUDGE