“4. It is not disputed before me that the Mahatma Gandhi University has not yet framed their own First Ordinances and they are still following the Kerala University First Ordinances, in respect of qualifications and methods of appointments of employees of the University, as it stood on 2nd October, 1983. From the said Ordinances, it is clear that Class IV employees whose basic qualification is ability to read and write can aspire for promotion to the post of Clerical Assistant and the persons who were promoted as Clerical Assistants and who have the minimum qualification of SSLC can be considered for promotion to the post of Assistant Grade -II insofar as the qualifications prescribed for that post is a University degree but relaxable in the case of Clerical Assistants who have acquired SSLC or equivalent qualification. Therefore, it is clear that a person having minimum qualification of SSLC if gets appointed as a Class IV employee and then gets promoted as Clerical Assistant can aspire for promotion to the post of Assistant Grade II. On the other hand, although the qualification prescribed for the post of Roneo Operator is also ability to read and write and experience in operating Roneo machines, they are included in the Class -III category of employees equivalent to the post of Clerical Assistant. But, even if they have the minimum qualification of SSLC, they cannot aspire for promotion as Assistant Grade II, like Clerical Assistants, since Roneo Operator is not a feeder category for that post. There is another anomaly in the matter also. There are no Roneo machines in vogue now. As such, the petitioners are also working as Clerical Assistants on work arrangement. As such, out of the two persons working alongside in the same post, the Class IV employee who got promoted as
