Tamil Nadu Rural Development Engineers ... vs The Secretary To Government, Rural ... on 29 January, 2007
(XI) In the decision (Dwarka Prasad and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.), the Supreme Court has held that fixation of quota in the feeder cadres based upon structure and pattern of the department is prerogative of the employer mainly pertaining to the policy making field. In the present cases, the petitioners have claimed to fix the ratio of 1:1 between the AE - direct recruits and AE - promotees contrary to the fixation of quota made by the Government. By applying the principle laid down in the above decision and as rightly pointed out by the learned Senior Counsel for the respondents, it is neither for the writ petitioners nor for the courts to advise or decide as to how the ratio has to be fixed.