Promotion Eligibility: Total Experience Counts, Not Just Experience In Region Where They Seek Promotion: SC [Read Judgment]

Rule does not require that the candidate must have acquired experience of five years in the region where he seeks promotion, the bench held.Interpreting a service rule which required “five years’ regular service ‘in the respective regions’” to be qualified for promotion, the Supreme Court, in MM Thomas vs Union of India, has held that it only means the candidates should have served...