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3. Ld. counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant was appointed to the post of Data Entry Operator (DEO) 'Grade A' on 10.08.2000. Subsequently, vide a Gazette Notification dated 20.05.2009 published on 30.05.2009, Recruitment Rules for Data Processing Assistant under Employees' Provident Fund Organization was introduced by creating a New Cadre with 274 posts of Data Processing Assistant (hereinafter referred to as DPA) under the Employees' Provident Fund Organization. In the said notification the post of DPA was declared as Group 'C' post and Scale of Pay for that post was mentioned at Pay Band of Rs. 9300-34800/- [Rs. 6500-10500 (Pre revised)] with Grade Pay Rs. 4200/-. It was clearly mentioned in the said notification that the post of DPAs is to be filled up through 100% direct recruitment only, simultaneously it was made clear that the existing DEOs having minimum educational qualification prescribed for the post of DPA with 6 years regular service shall be deemed to have been appointed to the post of DPA from the date of notification.