2. According to the counsel for the petitioners, all of the petitioners are qualified and have all the requisite qualifications for promotion to the post of Joint Director and Deputy Director. The previous DPC was convened on 28.11.2020 and where the case of the petitioner No.3 was also considered, however, till date the said recommendation have not been acted upon. If the said recommendations is acted upon, the grievance of the petitioner No.3 to that extent would get redressed. As per the promotion rules governing the field, the respondents are required to convene the DPC at a regular interval, if not, altleast once an year, subject to availability of vacancy. There is no dispute to the fact that there are vacancies available. The petitioners are all at the fag end of their service career and are awaiting next promotion which would improve upon their salary for the remaining part of their service career and also would improve upon the post retiral benefits and in the event if the respondents do not initiate promotion process, the petitioners may superannuate on the said post causing substantial loss to their post retiral benefits.
