Judgment

V.S. Sirpurkar, J. —

1.In the instant Application, the petitioner seeks directions from this Court on the following:

(a)Direct the respondent State/JHALCO to immediately comply with the Order dated 13.1.2005 and pass the Order of absorption in JHALCO with respect to 213 employees listed in the letters issued by MD, JHALCO on various dates (annexed to the I.A.), pursuant to the Order dated 13.1.2005 leaving the employees who have died.

(b)Pass any other Order (s) as may be deemed fit and proper.

2.The short history for proper decision would be necessary.

History :

3.Original State of Bihar came to be divided into existing State of Bihar and State of Jharkhand by Bihar Reorganisation Act with effect from 15.11.2000. The State of Jharkhand exercising its power under Section 85 of the Bihar Reorgnisation Act constituted a Corporation called “Jharkhand Hill Area Lift Irrigation Corporation” (hereinafter called ‘JHALCO’) by notification no. 2580 with effect from 29.12.2001.

4.It may be recalled that there were press reports regarding the non-payment of salaries for long time resulting in starvation of the employees of this Corporation. It was also reported that one Chandan Bhattacharya,