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7. Thereafter, vide Office Order No. E/B:Cell/99-2000/Distribution 488/76, dated 30th August 1999, the posts of inspectors (electrical) and Superintendent (Technical) were merged and converted into one post falling under one junior cadre with a revised pay scale, thereby the individuals appointed to the post of Inspector or superintendent were re- designated as Junior Engineers (hereinafter "JE").

12. Aggrieved by the non-response at the hands of the respondent, the petitioners filed individual writ petitions before this Court, praying for the grant of TBPS as applicable by the Office Orders.

13. Since a large number of cases were filed, this Court took up W.P(C) 6203/2013 as the lead matter to the batch matters. Subsequently a Coordinate Bench of this Court, vide judgment dated 31st August 2017, vindicated the stand of the petitioner and the respondent i.e., an undertaking of DVB was directed to grant the first TBPS of the level of Junior Engineer w.e.f., 26th September 1991, second level of TBPS of the level of Executive Engineer w.e.f. 26th September 1999, and third level of TBPS of the level of Superintendent Engineer w.e.f. 26th September 2007.

45. Further, bearing in mind the recommendations of the abovesaid committee, vide Office Order dated 30thAugust 1999, the DVB merged the post of inspector and superintendent (technical) with that of Junior Engineer. Consequent to the same, all individuals working at the post of inspector were re-designated as Junior Engineer.

46. As a result of the unbundling process, the petitioners were shifted to the respondent no.1 and the terms of their employment were decided to be as per the tripartite agreement dated 28th October 2000.

"once an employee enters into class-I service in his own right or in the time bound promotional scales, he shall be dealt with at par with the direct recruits in that grade for the purpose of benefit of next promotional scales."

77. The Office Order dated 19thOctober, 2000 was further modified by the Office Order dated 1st November 2000, wherein grant of second Time Bound Promotional Scale of Executive Engineer is allowed on completion of further 8 years of service from the date of TBPS of Assistant Engineer and also clarified that scale of Superintending Engineer shall be given to such of the Junior Engineers who have been appointed on regular basis as per Recruitment Rules in their own right to the second promotional grade of Executive Engineer.