1. - This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner against the respondents on 21.10.1999 with the prayer that by an appropriate writ, order or direction, the respondents be directed to regularise the services of the petitioner on the post of Junior Engineer (Diploma) Civil with effect from 1.3.1997.

2. The case of the petitioner as put forward by him in this writ petition is as follows :

The petitioner passed Diploma in Civil Engineering from Vidhya Bhawan Rural Institute, Udaipur in the year 1986 and a copy of the certificate is marked as Annexure 1 and he has also got man-power registration in the year 1987, which was as such renewed upto June 2000 as is evident from certificate Annexure 2.

The case of the petitioner is that he was appointed on the post of Junior Engineer-cum-Supervisor on 1.3.1997 at Devli Talab under Panchayat Samiti, Salumbar and, thereafter, he was working continuously on the said post and he was paid wages according to the rate prescribed under B.S.R. 1996 or at the rate of Rs. 120/- per day.
The further case of the petitioner is that for the period from 1.3.1997 to February, 1998 he was being paid wa