JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J. — Delay condoned in S.L.Ps.

Leave granted in S.L.Ps.

2. These civil appeals and transfer applications involve a common question as regards the legal right of regularization of the Respondents in services, although appointed for a fixed period in a project and, thus, are being disposed of by this common judgment.

3. We would notice the factual matrix of the matter from Civil Appeal No. 7051 of 2002. The First Respondent was appointed as an Assistant Computer Instructor. Mehar Chand Polytechnic, Jalandhar, undertook a Community Polytechnic Project, a scheme issued by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. The Central Government issued "provisional norms" for implementing the scheme. Specific amounts by way of both recurring and non-recurring expenses used to be granted by the Central Government. Under the head non-recurring expenses, a sum of Rs. Ten lacs was earmarked for acquisition of tools and equipments for five extension centres. As regards recurring nature of expenditure, Instructor were to be appointed on a consolidated amount of Rs.1,500/- or Rs.2,000/- as the case may be. The total amount of recurring expenditure was fi