Section 29 in The Orissa Printing and Stationery Service (State Service Class I and II) Rules, 1981
29.
(i)Seniority shall ordinarily be determined according to the position assigned by the Commission.(ii)When, however, officers are recruited by promotion and by direct recruitment for the same recruitment year, the promoted officers shall be considered senior to the officers directly recruited irrespective of their dates of appointment :Provided that a candidate directly recruited from 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 recruitment year in which his due date of appointment falls after ante-dating his date of appointment to the extent of Approved Military Service.
