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10. On the other hand, the case of the respondents primarily is that an advertisement was issued for filling up 58 vacancies of various trades of enrolled „Followers‟ (Group 'D') posts in BSF through open recruitment prepared by Frontier HQ, BSF, Srinagar for candidates who were bona fide domiciles of certain districts of Srinagar and Leh and Ladakh. The wards (son) of the BSF personnel who were deployed under Kashmir Frontier were also made eligible. The same was forwarded to Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity („DAVP‟, for short), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for publication in employment news and leading newspapers. On publication of vacancies in employment news and newspapers, a board of officers was detailed by Frontier HQ, BSF, Srinagar to conduct the said recruitment. The recruitment was conducted by the detailed Board of officers from October 20, 2008 onwards at STC, BSF, Srinagar. The Board of officers submitted its proceedings to IG, BSF, Srinagar Frontier on November 29, 2008. The Petitioner had also appeared in the above recruitment process for the post of Followers (Washerman) being ward‟s (son) of a serving BSF personnel under Blood Relations quota. The petitioner qualified various stages of recruitment i.e. preliminary screening, preliminary medical, verification of documents, physical efficiency test („PET‟, for short), interview to test general awareness and mental alertness, trade test and medical test. Thus, he was in the zone of consideration for selection with other 38 candidates of various trades. The name of petitioner figured at serial No. 127 of board proceedings under OBC category. In the meantime, the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission („6th CPC‟, for short) were implemented by Government of India, w.e.f., September 1, 2008. The Commission in its report inter alia recommended to abolish the cadre of the „Followers‟ and further recommended that recruitment in the grade of „Followers‟ should cease immediately. The respondents decided to keep the recruitment process concerned herein i.e., of Group 'D' enrolled „Followers‟ in abeyance and further sought clarification from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Thereafter, the Government of India vide order dated October 29, 2009, conveyed its decision to cease the recruitment in the grade of enrolled „Followers‟ (Group 'D') in Central Para-military Forces („CPMF‟, for short) immediately and placed the existing „Followers‟ in Group 'C' in Pay Band-I with Grade Pay of ₹2,000/- and further to designate them as Constable (Tradesman), Constable (Cook) etc. as the case may be after giving proper training to the existing Group 'D' enrolled „Followers‟ to make them combatised and on successful completion of such training, they be absorbed in the Grade of Combatant constables against regular vacancies. The lowest qualification prescribed by the 6th CPC for entry level into Government service was matriculation / ITI.