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3. While so, in the other Council, namely Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS), for the same Survey Officer post, the required qualification and experience are same and the age relaxation is given for their employees as 'no age bar for the employees of CCRAS'. Similarly, for the Medical Scientist i.e. Assistant Director (Homoeopathy) in the CCRH, they have given the age relaxation as 'no age bar for the employees of CCRH', vide their Advertisement No.2/2013. In the case of non-medical Scientist, i.e. Survey Officer, there is no age relaxation for the Council employees. The petitioner's total service is 31 years and he is holding the post of Field Botanist for 23 years. He has ample research experience in the field of survey, collection, identification, preparation and preservation of herbarium, drug standardisation, cultivation, germplasm collection and preservation techniques. He is also a recipient of 'Young Scientist Award', 'Gold Medal', 'Talented Scientist Award' and 'International Conservation Award' in Colombo University, Sri Lanka, for outstanding contribution in the field of natural medicines and conservation of the same. His works were published as 6 books, 11 articles on edited books, 13 articles on International Scientific Journals, 60 articles on National Scientific Journals and in 96 Scientific Seminars, Conferences, Workshops, he attended as resource person and he has also guided 1 Ph.D. and 4 M.Phil. candidates.

9. Learned counsel for the respondent, by referring to the affidavit filed in support of W.M.P.No.24040 of 2016, praying for vacating the above interim order, dated 22.09.2015, submitted that the respondent-CCRH is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India and the employees of CCRH are governed by the rules, regulations and bye-laws as incorporated under the Memorandum of Association of CCRH. The other Council, namely CCRAS, has its own recruitment rules as per its own requirements, while the respondent-CCRH has its own recruitment rules and hence, no parity can be sought for between the two Councils as claimed by the writ petitioner.

13. It is seen that the respondent-CCRH, by the impugned Advertisement, has called for applications for the post of Survey Officer. It is a solitary post and the method of recruitment is as prescribed in the relevant Rules of CCRH. It is to be noted that the said post is not a promotional post. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the other Councils like CCRAS, the age relaxation is given for their employees as 'no age bar for the employees of CCRAS'. When that being so, the respondent ought not to have fixed the age bar. This submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner cannot be countenanced, since one Council has given age relaxation for their employees, the respondent-Council cannot be compelled to follow the Rules of the other Council, especially when the Recruitment Rules of the respondent-CCRH prescribes the age limit of 40 years and the relaxation of age is provided as five years for the Government employees. Hence, this Court cannot give any direction as sought for by the petitioner.