IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 12.12.2011 CWP No.6958 of 1988 (O&M) Hari Parkash & others ... Petitioners versus Haryana State Electricity Board & another ... Respondents CWP No.7111 of 1988 (O&M) Haryana State Electricity Board Workers Union & others ... Petitioners versus Haryana State Electricity Board & others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present : None for the petitioners. Mr. Adarsh Jain, Advocate for the respondents. **** K.Kannan, J. In both the writ petitions, the petitioners, who are ITI qualified, have grievance about the promotion policy floated by Haryana State Electricity Board on 27.05.1985 to the post of Thermal Supervisor Grade II. The private respondents are the persons who had obtained Diploma in Engineering. The said policy spelt out that 50% of the post as Thermal Supervisor Grade II would be filled up by direct recruitment by persons having Diploma in Engineering or Science Graduate as Trainees at a fixed pay of Rs.570/- per month for one year and remaining 50% would be filled up by promotion from Operator CWP No.6958 of 1988 (O&M) -2- Grade-I who had Diploma in Engineering or Science Graduates with 4 years experience/service as such. The petitioners would complain that they are excluded from consideration by introduction of such promotion policy. Learned counsel for the respondents points out that the fixing relevant criteria for eligibility for promotion on the basis of educational qualification is prerogative of the employer and has been held so by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Roop Chand Adlakha & others vs. Delhi Development Authority and others, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 116. A policy that spells out the requirement of higher educational qualification as a Diploma holder or a Science graduate cannot therefore be faulted. For the same reason, a challenge to the promotion policy through the writ petition cannot also survive favourable consideration. The writ petitions are accordingly dismissed. December 12, 2011 (K.Kannan) sonia Judge