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SANDEEP V. MARNE
Deputy Director – Appellant
Versus
Vijaya Balbhim Mali – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SANDEEP V. MARNE, J.
1. These petitions are filed by Petitioner No. 2 through the Deputy Director, Social Forestry Division, Solapur challenging the Judgment and Order dated 31 March 2001 passed by the Industrial Court, Solapur, by which complaints filed by the Respondents have been partly allowed and Petitioners are directed to consider the length of continuous services put by them till amendment of complaints on 21 July 1999 for the purpose of grant of benefit of permanency. Petitioners are accordingly directed to issue orders for permanency of the Respondents with continuity of service i.e. consequential benefits, without backwages.
2. Afforestation of barren lands is a program undertaken by the Government of India, which later assumed the name ‘Social Forestry’. The program was soon implemented by various State Governments, including the State of Maharashtra through its Department of Revenue and Forests. The scheme for social forestry included inter-alia the activity of plantation on the lands made available by Gram Panchayats, Public Works Department and other private institutions. For the purpose of undertaking the work of plantation, grass cutting and maintenance of
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