JUDGMENT

HANSARIA, J. :—The material resources of country are limited. Indeed this is so for every country. The resource crunch is, however, acute for us; and so whenever and wherever public money is invested , it has to be seen that there is a proper utilisation of the same in the sense that the public ultimately gets benefit of the same.

2. This prelude is to highlight the idea which we propose to focus as we proceed to bring home the need to make the investment in apprentice trainees useful to the society, which would be so when the training received by them is put to social use. We are putting this aspect of the matter at the forefront because one of the appellants namely, the U.P.State Road Transport Corporation,(here in after the Corporation), has made a grievance about some directions given by the Allahabad High Court to employ those who had received training in the workshop of the Corporation. The direction has been given mainly at the call of promissory estoppel which is not applicable according to the Corporation.We would agree with this stand of the Corporation; but then, another reason advanced for the direction is also spending of money on imparting the training to the