IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.518 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision : August 01, 2011. Anil Sharma and others .....Petitioners versus The State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Arvinder Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab. -.- 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 seek quashing of various orders whereby their juniors have been given charge of the higher posts in violation of the rule of seniority-cum-merit. As the action was per-se illegal, the State Government has reconsidered it vide memo dated 4.3.2011 (Annexure P-23) which reads as follows:- “....This has been observed that there has a lot of struggle among the employees to take charge of the posts lying vacant in the field. In this regard at this point of time there has been no clear and permanent policy and about certain orders objections are being raised by the CWP No.518 of 2011 [2] organizations of the employes. Primarily this situation has arisen because the department has done away with the placement policy which was prevalent for the last many years and the new rules are yet to be finalized. Therefore, this has been decided that in future the charge of vacant post be given to only those employees who are eligible for permanent promotion. By doing so, whereas a transparent policy will be formed at the same time the point of reservation will also be considered. Therefore, in future under the proposed rules in which the point of reservation is also included, a panel of officers who are eligible for regular promotion be formed and the charge of different vacant posts be given out of them only. Still the regular promotions will be possible only after the finalization of the rules. 2. The compliance of this order of the Government be assured and in future the proposal be sent to the Government in accordance with it........” The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the respondents to act upon the above stated circular dated 4.3.2011 for the purpose of giving current duty charge of the higher posts in the Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Punjab and rectify the errors whatsoever has been committed in the past, as early as possible but not later than four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. August 01, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE