https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173194 Seniority-cum-merit for promotion to Area Manager and Senior Manager posts in Regional Rural Banks requires only that the senior eligible officer satisfy the minimum standard of merit and fitness; it does not permit comparative ranking of all candidates. Interview, appraisal and record assessment may be used only to test whether that minimum standard exists. Promotion schemes that awarded marks for comparative merit and promoted only the highest scorers were inconsistent with the Rules, while schemes applying a qualifying threshold and then preferring seniority were valid. en-us Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:16:18 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173194 Seniority-cum-merit for promotion to Area Manager and Senior Manager posts in Regional Rural Banks requires only that the senior eligible officer satisfy the minimum standard of merit and fitness; it does not permit comparative ranking of all candidates. Interview, appraisal and record assessment may be used only to test whether that minimum standard exists. Promotion schemes that awarded marks for comparative merit and promoted only the highest scorers were inconsistent with the Rules, while schemes applying a qualifying threshold and then preferring seniority were valid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173194