The inter-seniority of persons appointed to posts carrying the same scale of pay shall be determined by the date of their appointment to such posts provided that if two or more persons are substantively appointed to such posts on the same date, their seniority shall be determined as under :-
(i) a person recruited by promotion from the service of the Corporation shall be junior to a person recruited by direct appointment, and shall be senior to a person recruited otherwise;
(ii) in the case of two persons recruited by direct recruitment, the older in age shall rank senior to the younger; and
(iii) in any other case, the scale of pay or salary in the previous appointment shall be the deciding factor, and the person drawing pay in a higher scale shall be senior to a person drawing pay in a lower scale, and where the scales of pay are identical, the person drawing higher salary shall rank senior.
7. Promotion. All promotions shall be on the basis of merit-cum-seniority and no person shall have a right to be promoted to any post on the basis of seniority alone.
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