16. In view of aforesaid, candidates possessing degrees before their recruitments and they had not obtained their degrees from distance education mode and they had attained three years service in the year 2017, would form the aforesaid group of employees. The petitioners are in the group of employees, who had cleared the eligibility test in December, 2018 only and that too, in the second chance/attempt. They did not appear in the first chance. In view of clarificatory note appearing in the circular No.1/2016 dated 11.02.2016, three years service will be counted after the date of declaration of result of the acquired requisite qualification, while maintaining the seniorities in 14% AMIE/degree holder quota of Technical Subordinates. Therefore, in view of directions issued by the Hon'ble Apex Court in para No.66 of the Judgment dated 03.11.2017 and further clarified vide order dated 22.01.2018 and in view of the fact that the petitioners have passed the tests conducted by AICTE in second attempt, which was held in December 2018, the eligibility of the petitioners for the posts of Assistant Engineers would fall on completion of three years of service from the date of passing of B.Tech Degree i.e. after three years from December 2018 in December 2021, therefore, the names of the petitioners have not been included in the final seniority list of 14% degree holders/technical subordinates for the period from 01.01.2017 to 31.12.2017.
