Judgment

Dharmadhikari, J.—Leave to appeal, as prayed for, is granted.

2. Learned counsel for the appellant and the learned Standing Counsel for the Union of India representing Railways and its authorities are heard.

3. The appellants started their service in the Railways as daily-rated employees on different posts of Khalasi, Gangman, Chowkidar between the years January 1981 to June 1982. They were given temporary status on the post in which they were working.

They were posted on different dates in the year 1984 to work as store man which is a higher post in the Group ‘C’ carrying a higher scale of pay. They continuously worked on the post of Store man for long peri­ods during the years 1984, 1985, 1988 and 1990 till they were reverted by the impugned order passed on 29.7.1999 from Group ‘C’ post of Store man to Group ‘D’ post of Khalasi in the open line.

4. The appellants approached the Central Administrative Tribunal with their grievance and prayer that they having been made to work on the post of Store man and sometimes as Clerk for a long period of more than ten years they are entitled to be regularized and absorbed on the Group ‘C’ post.

5. The Central Administrative Tribunal partl