Section 34 in The Madurai City Municipal Corporation Service Rules, 1975
34. Reduction of full member. - If full member of any class or category of the service is substantively reduced to a lower class or category therein, he shall be deemed to be a full member of the latter and the permanent cadre thereof shall, if there is no vac icy in which he could be absorbed, be deemed to be increased by one:
Provided that against every such addition, an officiating or temporary vacancy, if any, in such lower class or category shall be kept unfilled and such addition shall be absorbed in the first permanent vacancy that arises subsequently in such lower class or category, as the case may be.
