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Direct Recruit Class Ii Engineering ... vs State Of Maharashtra And Ors on 2 May, 1990

We have outlined above our reasons for upholding the validity of the principle of year of allotment, principal among which is our disinclination to tamper with a settled practice, in view of the dicta contained in the decision of this Court in the Direct Recruit Engineering Officers' Association case (supra). The concept of year of allotment has also been shown to be a workable one, inasmuch as it was still open to the Government in the post- 1973 merger scenario to recruit officers from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to, transfer from comparable services. When once the concept of year of allotment is deemed to be upheld, it matters not that the first name of the O.S.A.S. would rank immediately below the last name of the erstwhile O.A.S. The material point of fact is that through the adoption of a legal fiction and by having recourse to his Constitutional function under Article 309 of the Constitution, the Governor of the State of Orissa appointed certain officers in the year 1975, who were appointed against vacancies which were identified in the year 1973, prior to the entry into force of the Merger Resolution of December 1973. That being the case, the legal fiction of year of allotment would operate in respect of the 1975 appointees as if they had been appointed in the year when the vacancies were initially identified; in other words, they would be deemed to have been appointed in the year 1973, prior to the merger of the O.A.S. II with the O.S.A.S., although their actual period of service was seen to commence only in 1975.
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