IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15202 of 1993 Date of Decision : May 03, 2010. Jarnail Singh and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Amit Chopra, 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) This order shall dispose of Civil Writ Petition Nos.15202 of 1993 and 16359 of 1994 as common questions of law and facts are involved in these cases. For brevity, the facts are being extracted from Civil Writ Petition No.15202 of 1993. The petitioners are working as Vocational Teachers in the Education Department, Government of Punjab. They seek a mandamus to direct the respondents to consider and promote them to the posts of Masters as they possess the requisite academic qualifications for the afor- stated posts. C.W.P.No .15202 of 1993 2 It appears that the petitioners were not being promoted on the posts of Masters for want of an express provision in the Punjab State Education Class-III (School Cadre) Service Rules, 1978, to this effect. During the pendency of this writ petition, the State of Punjab vide notification dated 8.7.1995, has amended the aforesaid Service Rules and a new cadre of Vocational Masters has been created in which 25% posts are to be filled up by promotion(s) from amongst the Vocational Teachers. In this view of the matter when promotional avenues have been opened for the petitioners, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioners for promotion to the posts of Vocational Masters, in accordance with law/ Rules/Govt.Policies and as per their seniority, as early as possible and preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. May 03, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE