Section 25 in The Cochin Port Trust Employees (Recruitment, Seniority, and Promotion) Regulations, 2010
25. Fixation of Seniority.
(1)The seniority of persons directly recruited to a grade and persons appointed on the basis of departmental promotion shall be assigned inter-se seniority according to rotation of vacancies between direct recruits and promotees which shall be based on the quota of vacancies in the grade reserved for direct recruitment and promotion as indicated in the schedule. In cases where exchange of vacancies has been resorted to as per Regulation 6, the seniority will be as per the mode of filling up.(2)Direct recruits shall be ranked inter-se in the order of merit in which they are placed in the select list on the basis of their performance in the examination or interview or both, the recruits of an earlier select list being ranked senior to those of a later select list.(3)Persons appointed against promotion quota of vacancies shall be ranked inter-se according to the order in which they are approved for promotion by the Departmental Promotion Committee.(4)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulations (1) to (3) above the seniority already determined prior to the commencement of these regulations shall remain unaffected.
