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(ii) 2 years teaching experience as TGT Social Study, AND
(iii) Certificate of having qualified Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET)/School Teachers Eligibility Test (STET)."

Thus, though the petitioners were eligible for promotion to posts of PGTs in the subjects they have obtained post graduate degrees in, even if they had not taught those subjects as TGTs/Masters/C & V Teachers, as per the old Rules of 1998, they are now not eligible as per the Rules of 2012.

(i) below Appendix-B in fact provides an opportunity to those seeking direct recruitment to posts of PGTs, to clear the HTET even after their appointment, upto 01.04.2015 (later extended to 01.04.2018), and consequently, there would be no reason to deny the petitioners and others like them, the same benefit.

26. Hence, considering the entire circumstances, these petitions are disposed of with a direction that it would be actually the new rules of 2012 that would apply for filling up vacancies on the posts of Post Graduate Teachers, even as had occurred prior to the promulgation of the 2012 rules; however the petitioners and others like them shall be given a 4 year period to obtain post graduate qualifications in the subjects that they are teaching on the lower posts (TGTs/Masters/Mistresses), as also to qualify the HTET within the said period.

It needs to be stated here that, undoubtedly, restoring seniorities on higher posts at a subsequent stage (2 to 4 years later), would mean obviously shuffling the seniority list in a very large cadre at that stage (of promotions after obtaining the degree), but in view of the fact that the new rules have been promulgated adding improved eligibility conditions, without sufficient notice to those who did not have those qualifications, it is considered appropriate by this Court to give such persons an opportunity to acquire such higher qualifications (post graduate degrees), as also to clear the HTET. In the case of HTET, as already noticed, if for direct recruits such a provision has been made, then there is no 19 of 20 reason not to give that benefit to the employees already in service of the State, with the additional benefit of being able to obtain the post graduate degree in the subject concerned, within a period of 4 years, though prior to promotion.

If however, a TGT possesses a post graduate degree in the subject that she/he is already teaching, then for promotion as a PGT in the same subject, the clearing of the HTET/SLET/SET shall not be a pre-condition but a condition subsequent, just as in the case of direct recruits.

Thus, if a TGT (History) seeks promotion as a PGT (History) and has two years teaching experience in the said subject, as also a post graduate degree in History, she/he would be eligible to be promoted as such PGT immediately, provided thereafter she/he clears the HTET/SLET/SET within 4 years of promotion, failing which she/he shall be reverted to the post of a TGT.