broad categories, namely, General Service, Engineering and Water Service and Public Heath Services. In Annexure – I to the said G.O., the technical posts in the Engineering and Water Supply Department have been grouped into three broad categories, namely, Technical Assistant, Skilled Assistant (Grade – I) and Skilled Assistant (Grade – II) with separate scale of pay, wherein for Skilled Assistant (Grade – II), the Scale of Pay was fixed as Rs.975 – 1500. In the said G.O., as has been rightly pointed out by the learned Standing Counsel for the second respondent, under Serial No.24, in Annexure – II, Basic service category has been mentioned, where posts such as Office Assistant, Watchman, Cleaner, Male/Female Attender, Unskilled Worker and Sanitary Worker had been given, where pay was fixed at Rs.750 – 940. It is the pay category fixed for the post of Electrician Motor Assistant. Therefore, at any stretch of imagination the post wherein the petitioner was originally appointed cannot be categorized as Skilled Assistant Grade – II. It may be his case that some posts like Fitter, Motor Reader, Road Inspector, Field Man etc. had been grouped as Skilled Assistant (Grade – II). For appointment to the said posts, the qualification may also I.T.I. Certificate or equivalent thereto. Merely because of the petitioner having I.T.I. Certificate the post he was having cannot be treated as post on par with the post included in the Skilled Assistant (Grade II) category. If this kind of plea is accepted, then it will create anomaly. Some other person who might have been appointed as Electrician Motor Assistant or any other equivalent post with lesser qualification but got qualification required for the higher post, and those persons would also make such a claim that the post which are included in the basic services also be clubbed with the posts included in the Skilled Assistant Grade – II. Admittedly, the petitioner has not challenged the merits of the said Government Order. If the said Government Order is implemented electrician, motor Assistant shall naturally fall only under the basic service category with the scale of Pay of 975 – 1100. From the said Scale of pay, after completion of 10 years of service rightly the petitioner had been conferred the status of Selection Grade, which is equivalent to Skilled Assistant (Grade – II). Therefore, the further request of the petitioner to treat him to Skilled Assistant (Grade – II) and accordingly he should be considered for promotion to the post of Skilled Assistant (Grade – I) with the further pay scale of pay of Rs.1100 – 1660 etc., shall be counted against the imports of the Rules especially under G.O.Ms.No.237 Municipal Administration and Water Supply (Election) Department dated 26.09.1996. Therefore, for that reasons, the impugned order passed against the petitioner by the respondent cannot be interfered with.
