alleging that it has not been reckoned
for selection, he has preferred this OA. The reliefs sought are :
(i) Call for records leading to Annexure ... such posts,
so that trained Graduate/Technicians and Technician Voc. apprentices get
preference for job opportunities, in Central and State establishments.
Learned counsel
consideration for transferring them as Trackmen to Thiruchirappalli
Division, in preference to those Act Apprentices, who stand allotted vide
Annexure A-8 order ... allege that the proposed action to appoint 60 Act Apprentices against
DR quota vacancies, in preference to them is arbitrary, discriminatory and
illegal
what is now available to the ex-naval
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apprentices is a preference for direct recruitment, other things being equal.
Respondents issued Annexure A3 notification ... employer to offer any employment to any apprentice after
the successful completion of apprentice training. As per Annexure A1 60%
of the posts of designated
Annexure A-4 Recruitment Rules, was absorption of ex-Naval Apprentice
failing which by promotion and failing that by transfer and failing both by
direct ... Electrician which arose after 29.12.1987 considering them as Ex-
Naval Apprentices entitled to first preference under the Recruitment Rules.
By way of implementation of Annexure
posted in Palakkad Division after completion of the Traffic Apprentice
Training in preference to others in the select list. Annexure A1 order
allowing the applicant
Moreover, we feel that being No. 1 in the select list of
Apprentice Trainees, the applicant has accrued a legal right for an
option ... posted in Palghat
Division after completion of the Traffic Apprentice training in
preference to others in the select list."
10. As per the provisions
notification applicant volunteered for the selection for the post of
Traffic Apprentice, he was selected being No.2 in the merit list, and is
undergoing ... posted in
Palghat Division after completion of the Traffic Apprentice training
in preference to others in the select list.
9 In this view
Moreover, we feel that being No. 1 in the select list of Apprentice Trainees, the applicant has accrued a legal right for an option ... posted in Palghat Division after completion of the Traffic Apprentice training in preference to others in the select list.
13. The O.A. is allowed
preceded by unpaid apprentice in the Electrical Department of
Lakshadweep Administration from 14-07-2009 to 30-06-2010 (for which
preference shall be given ... definition of the term
apprentice as per the Apprentice Act, 1961 . The counsel submitted that an
apprentice cannot be equated to a worker
service profile of the applicant. He had
entered service as Act Apprentice on 11.09.1979, then was regularized on
23.02.1983. After putting in more than ... also not disputed that Annexure A-2 appeal was preferred on
08.01.2004 before the 2nd respondent, the appellate authority. By that time
more than
