Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
In the matter of promotions and confirmations, the District Judge should take into consideration the following principles :— (I) All clerks who pass the Lower Standard Departmental Examination should be confirmed immediately in the existing vacancies. Such confirmations should not be deferred till the passing of the said examination by their seniors. (Vide High Court Circular No. B. 10135/50, dated the 5th December 1950.) (II) A clerk senior in service in the lower grade who has qualified himself for promotion by passing the Higher Standard Departmental Examination should not be promoted to a post in the higher grade by elevating a junior clerk in the lower grade who is already officiating in the higher grade by reason of the fact that he had qualified himself earlier. The same principle applies in the case of a junior clerk officiating in a temporary vacancy in the higher grade. The seniority of clerks in the higher grade should be determined from the date of their appointment to the higher grade and not by reference to seniority in the lower grade. (Vide High Court Circular No. B. 1062 of 50, dated the 26th June 1950.) (III) If a clerk who is junior in service has passed the Lower Standard Departmental Examination before a clerk who is senior in service, the clerk junior in service should be confirmed, if there is a permanent vacancy, in preference to the clerk senior in service who has not passed the examination.