“5.1 In the impugned order dated 21.10.2014 (Annexure A- 1), the reason for rejection of the claim of the applicant for out of turn promotion has been given as “The Board did not find any merit in awarding out of turn promotion to Shri Pawan Kumar in view of the performance over the period in service in MTNL and decided that case be defended accordingly.” As is clear from the language of the impugned order, the rejection is based on the performance over the period of service in MTNL and is not being linked to any achievement in a national/international event, which is the sole requirement of Rules 10, 11 and 13 of the Recruitment Rules. For his Silver Medal winning performance in Commonwealth Games in July 2003 in Canada, whereas two increments have been granted to the applicant, but he has not been granted the out of turn promotion as per Rule 13 of the Rules ibid. For his Bronze medal winning performance in 50th Senior National Wrestling Championship in December, 2003 in Orissa and for Gold winning performance in Federation Cup (Khashaba Jadhav Chashak) in March, 2004 in Maharashtra, the increments, as due under Rules 11 of the Rules ibid, have not been granted to the applicant.”
