RAJIV SHAKDHER, J.

WP(C)3989/2010 & CM No.7948/2010 (stay)

1. The petitioners before me appear to be children of a lesser God. Their mass exodus in 1989, on account of threat to life and liberty caused them, to move to Delhi. The Government of the day facilitated their movement. The scale of the problem was huge. Make shift camps were set up in the Jammu and Delhi and in other neighbouring States.

2. Governments both at the Central and State level grappled with issues relating to housing, health and employment. A very proud set of people were made to ask and survive on State dole. Persons who were kings, in a manner of speech, in their own houses were overnight turned into paupers. It is a story of riches to rags.

3. It is in these circumstances that respondents reached out to the petitioners – found them employment as teachers in State run schools. These are schools run by the Municipal Corporation, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and the Directorate of Education (DOE), Government of National Capital of Delhi (in short GNCTD).

4. The engagement was offered on contractual b