Vibhu Bakhru, J.

1. The petitioner has filed the present petition impugning an order dated 08.09.2017 (hereafter ‘the impugned order’) passed by the Director General Resettlement (hereafter ‘DGR’). By the impugned order, the petitioner has been dis-empanelled from DGR Coal Loading and Transportation Scheme.

2. The Directorate General Re-Settlement, Ministry of Defence has floated various schemes for providing an opportunity of employment to ex-servicemen. One such schemes is of sponsoring ex-servicemen for taking up the work of loading/unloading and transportation of coal for Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries.

3. The Scheme to promote coal transportation companies by ex-servicemen was formulated between the Ministry of Energy (now Ministry of Coal) and Ministry of Defence in 1979 with the dual objective of providing assured transport for coal to Coal India Limited and for providing re-employment to rehabilitate ex-servicemen in civilian life. On 08.04.1993, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was entered into between Ministry of Defence (Directorate General of Resettlement) and Ministry of Coal (Coal India Limited). This was superseded by another MoU executed on 16.04.199