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There is another aspect the qualification is to be seen at the time of recruitment. A person possessing the requisite qualification at the time of recruitment cannot be denied the benefit of the pay scale, if, at any subsequent stage the qualifications are modified. Hon'ble Supreme Court in case of Chandraprakash Madhavrao Dadwa Vs. Union of India reported as 1998(4) RSJ considered the similar question and held as under:-

" 47. To put it in a nutshell, the change in the essential qualification made in 1990 or 1998 or the additional functions now required to be performed by the appellants could not retrospectively affect the initial recruitment of appellants as Data Processing Assistants nor their confirmation in 1989. Recruitment qualifications could not be altered for applied with retrospective effects so as to deprive the recruitees of their right to the posts to which they were recruited nor could it affect their confirmations."