(1) WE have heard learned counsel for both the parties. It is not disputed that a number of Karamcharis working as Drivers, Conductors, Cleaners etc. in the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation have been working for a number of years as casual workers and some of them have been working from 8 to 12 years.

(2) WE are concerned in this case with only one of the three questions referred to the tribunal for its decision and that question reads as follows:

"WHETHER it would be justified to make regular those employees who have completed service for 240 days?"

(3) THE tribunal while answering this question has directed that only those employees who had been regularly employed and who had completed 240 days of continuous satisfactory service were eligible for regularisation.

(4) SINCE it is admitted that a large number of people have been working as casual labourers for a long number of years, the question whether they were initially appointed regularly or irregularly becomes immaterial for purposes of the question involved in this case. This court has in a number of decisions already rendered by it directed regularisation of casual labourers wherever it