JUDGMENT

K. Venkataswami, J.-Leave granted.

Heard counsel for the parties.

2. Aggrieved by the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter called the "Tribunal"), Allahabad Bench, dated January 8, 1996 in O.A.No. 1361/95, the present appeal is filed.

3. In the view we propose to take, it is not necessary to set out in detail the facts leading to the filing of the said O.A. before the Tribunal.

The appellant union moved the Tribunal for regularising the services of its members, on the ground that they have been engaged as contract labourers for several years doing the job of parcel porters at Agra Fort (Railway Station) in the light of the judgment of this Court in National Federation of Railway Porters, Vendors and Bearers v. Union of India & Ors.1.

4. According to the appellant, the said judgment of this Court was rendered more or less in identical circumstances. The Tribunal, unfortunately, instead of going into the matter and deciding the issue raised before it, declined to entertain the O.A. on the ground that the union has an alternative remedy available to it.

5. The question that was to be decided by the Tribunal in the light of the judgment of this Court in National