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(a) Civil services - Seniority -- Continuous officiation in a grade-Technical reversion only on paper and-not having taken place actually-Does not cause. Break in continuous officiation for purposes of seniority. (b) Civil services-Seniority-Abolition of Central Government office due to transfer, of relevant subjects to Provincial Government Provincial Government agreeing, to protect seniority of Central Government officials with reference to their continuous of officiation in a grade or comparable grade on their absorption in Provincial Government office-Such Central Government officials, although, retaining their lien in Central Government for want of permanent post in Provincial Government office in which absorbed, held, cannot be disowned by Provincial Government in matter of being, shown in seniority list among other Provincial Government officials of com parable grade and entitled to count their continuous officiating period incomparable grade towards seniority.                               ORDER S. A. MAHMOOD (CHAIRMAN).-This appeal is by Mr. M. A. Chughtai, Assistant in the office of Director of Industries (Supply Wing), who has been placed at serial No. 76 in the seniority list of Assistants and Stenographers as on 1-4-1968, circulated on the 27th April 1968, by the Government of West Pakistan, Directorate of Industries and Commerce (Administration Wing). He is aggrieved by his ranking at serial No. 76 on the ground that his seniority has been counted as Assistant from 2-11-1959, the date he joined the office of Director of Industries and not 13-1-1950, when he was promoted as Senior Clerk in the Central Government, which is a grade comparable to that of Assistant iii the Provincial Government Mr. M. A. Chughtai was appointed by the Central Government as Junior Clerk on 1-7-1949 in the Supply and Development Wing of the Ministry of Industries, and was promoted as Upper Division Clerk in 1949. On 13-1-1950, he was promoted as Senior Clerk in the grade of Rs. 125-10-225 and confirmed on 19th February 1955. On the second of November 1959, in consequence of re-organization of…