JUDGMENT - R.J. KOCHAR, J.:---The petitioner, the most unfortunate creature, who is a called citizen under our Constitution and an integral and inseparable constituent of the "We the People" is being tossed ruthlessly from one Court to another Court. Not by a private employer but by the authorities of our Welfare State. In the year 1990 the State has taken away from him his land approximately admeasuring eight acres, the only source of his livelihood. He is now put in the category of Project Affected Persons, vide letter dated 10-4-2000 addressed by the District Rehabilitation Officer. No doubt he might have been given compensation in accordance with law but in my opinion compensation is no substitute for the land. The compensation gets evaporated soon while the land continues as mother land-source of livelihood for generations. To help such persons our welfare State has provided for giving jobs to all such persons whose land was or is taken by the State for different projects and for different public purposes. Even job which many times is temporary is no substitute for the land as the employee retires at some point of time while the land gets inheritated down to the generations as

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