ORDER:— Having heard learned Counsel for the parties and gone through the directions issued by this Court in its judgment dated February 4,1987 (reported in AIR 1987 SC 777 : 1987 Lab IC 619), we are of the opinion that the respondents were required:

(1) to absorb the petitioners and make them departmental employees on the expiry of a maximum period of 9 months from the date of the order, namely, February 4, 1987;

(2) to refrain in the meantime from employing contract labourers and to continue the services of the petitioners in the capacity in which they were working on the date of the decision of this Court, and;

(3) to regularise the services of such petitioners who have been absorbed and made departmental employees.

2. It has been asserted by the learned Counsel for the respondent and not disputed by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that all the petitioners have been absorbed and made departmental employees with effect from April 1, 1987. Further, all such petitioners who had completed 120 days of their services have been given temporary status and are being paid salary (as distinguished from daily wages) which is admissible to an employee having temporary status. The grievanc