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04. The establishment of the respondent No. 1- the Bank came forward with an exercise for promotion captioned as "Career progression of Banking Associates for the position of Assistant Manager Cadre", by virtue of communication No. JKB/Rectt/2023- 792 dated 21.09.2023 inviting the Banking Associates fulfilling the criteria to be eligible for the Career Progression from Banking Associates to Assistant Manager (Cadre) and, accordingly, invited all the eligible Banking Associates, except ineligible under service rules and/or under investigation in FIR No. 10/2019 and FIR No. 01/2020 Anti-Corruption Bureau, Jammu, to submit their respective willingness in the prescribed manner and thereupon to wait for the dates for online test of eligible candidates under Fast- track and Screening Channel to be notified separately to be then followed by interview dates for promotion upon culmination of online test under Fast-track and Screening Channel. It is with respect to the purported screening test which came to be slapped upon the petitioners that left them aggrieved to be in the present writ petition as under the guise of screening test they came to be made to suffer written test not meant for them .

5.4.3 Written Test: (Fast Track Channel) Written test shall be conducted through IBPS Mumbai or other reputed external agency which conducts online examinations for different employers in the banking industry. The written test (objective type) of 100 marks shall be based on:

              Banking Awareness :                25 Marks
              Clerical Aptitude :                25 Marks
              Computer Literacy :                25 Marks
              English Comprehension :            25 Marks

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21. In the writ petition, the petitioners have averred that they came to be issued call letters individually for "Eligibility Screening Test," whereas Banking Associates availing "Fast-track Channel"

promotion were called on "People‟s System" and the syllabus for the written test was also put on the "People‟s System." The petitioners aver that they legitimately expected eligibility screening test for them to be quite distinct from the written test meant to be conducted by IBPS, Mumbai for the Fast-Track Channel Banking Associate aspirants but the petitioners came to be taken by surprise and caught in no man‟s land when they too were subjected to face the same written test conducted by IBPS, Mumbai thereby bringing them under the same umbrella in terms of test taking with those of Fast-Track Channel Banking Associates and that set in the failure for the petitioners in the test so taken.

30. The respondent No. 1 - the Bank itself is the author of the Policy and it cannot apply it by tweaking its text and context. If the situation was so easy to be figured out as the respondent No.1-the Bank is meaning to showcase in its reply and written submissions that for a non-IBPS Banking Associate with seven (7) plus years of service to earn promotion to next level he or she is to clear a common written test competing along with Banking Associate with three (3) plus years of service under Fast-Track/Merit test regime, then the Policy itself would have come up with no distinction and just by one rule serving the two ends would have sufficed the purpose but the Policy is not so worded meaning and recommending.