JAMMU, Sept 25: After hearing both the sides, CAT observed that it is clear that the minimum qualification for departmental promotion to the post of ARTO is only seven years of service as Motor Vehicle Inspectors & in other words no technical qualification has been prescribed for promotion to the post of ARTO.
The applicants were promoted as Motor Vehicle Inspectors with effect from the year 2003, as such, by the year 2010, the applicants had attained the required service of seven years for promotion as ARTO, so the applicants are eligible for consideration of their cases for regularization of their promotion to the post of ARTO.
The CAT directed the respondents to convene the DPC/PSC and to place the cases of the applicants before the DPC/PSC for their substantive promotion to the posts of Assistant Regional Transport Officers retrospectively from the date they were made in-charge of the post, with all consequential benefits.
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