Section 21(2) in The Orissa Mining and Geology Service Rules, 1976
(2)When however officers are recruited by promotion and by direct recruitment during the same [Financial year] [Substituted vide Orissa Gazette Part III-A/29.10.1982.] the promoted officers shall be considered senior to the officers directly recruited irrespective of their dates of appointment :Provided that a candidate directly recruited to the approved Military Service, shall on his appointment to the Service, after release from the Military Service, be allowed to count the actual period of his service rendered in the Military Service. He shall be placed above all direct recruits of the year in which his due date of appointment falls after antedating his date of appointment to the extent of approved Military Service.Part-VII Miscellaneous
