https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833 Time-bound higher pay scales under the Board's 1990 order are confined to directly recruited Assistant Engineers and promotees statutorily deemed direct recruits because they possessed the prescribed qualification and were promoted against the reserved quota. The legal fiction in the appended note cannot extend this benefit to all promotees regardless of qualifications. Removal of stagnation does not create an unconditional entitlement to a higher scale where the employee lacks the essential qualification for the higher post. Equal-treatment principles under Articles 14 and 16 do not require similarly treating qualified and unqualified promotees. Ineligible promotees cannot claim the benefit merely by completing the prescribed service period. en-us Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:49:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833 Time-bound higher pay scales under the Board's 1990 order are confined to directly recruited Assistant Engineers and promotees statutorily deemed direct recruits because they possessed the prescribed qualification and were promoted against the reserved quota. The legal fiction in the appended note cannot extend this benefit to all promotees regardless of qualifications. Removal of stagnation does not create an unconditional entitlement to a higher scale where the employee lacks the essential qualification for the higher post. Equal-treatment principles under Articles 14 and 16 do not require similarly treating qualified and unqualified promotees. Ineligible promotees cannot claim the benefit merely by completing the prescribed service period. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833