Promotion Eligibility Runs from Year of Appointment to Feeder Cadre, Not Actual Joining Date: Chhattisgarh High Court
Case Title: Om Prakash Dewangan & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors.
Case No.: WA No. 944 of 2025
Coram: Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal
Court Observation
“… the rule-making authority has consciously prescribed the calendar year of joining as the starting point for computation of qualifying service and has specifically excluded the actual date of joining as the basis for such computation. Therefore, once the appellants had joined the feeder cadre in the year 2017, the entire calendar year 2017 is liable to be reckoned as the first year of qualifying service.”
“When the statutory provision itself specifically provides that the qualifying service is to be counted from the calendar year in which the employee joined the feeder cadre and not from the date of joining, the actual dates of joining of the appellants in November, 2017 cannot be made the basis for postponing their eligibility,”
