Karnataka HC upholds KHB’s new rule opening promotion to executive engineer posts even to diploma-holder AEEs
The Karnataka High Court has upheld a new rule by the Karnataka Housing Board that reserves 25% of Executive Engineer promotion vacancies for diploma-holder Assistant Executive Engineers. The court ruled that this measure is necessary to address long-standing career stagnation for diploma holders.
Why it matters
This ruling sets a legal precedent for balancing educational qualifications with career progression opportunities in public sector employment.
The High Court of Karnataka has upheld the amendment made to Karnataka Housing Board’s (KHB) Rules creating a 25% quota for promotion of diploma-holder Assistant Executive Engineers (AEEs) to the Executive Engineer (EE) cadre by rejecting the challenge to the new rules by the undergraduate degree-holder AEEs.
“The avowed object behind the amendment is neither obscure nor elusive. It is to alleviate the stagnation that had overtaken diploma-holder AEEs who, notwithstanding decades of blemishless service, found the doors of further advancement permanently closed,” the court said, while pointing out that stagnation in public service has never been viewed by constitutional courts as a desirable incident of administration.
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