ORDER :

1. Being aggrieved and dissatisfied with the order dated 15.02.2014, Annexure P-1, whereby representations having been filed by the petitioners herein, in terms of order dated 21.08.2013, passed by this Court in CWP No. 6162 of 2013, praying therein for conferment of work charge status from the date they completed 8 years regular service, came to be rejected, petitioners approached erstwhile H.P. State Administrative Tribunal by way of filing Original Application bearing OA No. 4513 of 2015, which now on account of abolishment of Tribunal, stands transferred to this Court and has been re-registered as CWPOA No. 6259 of 2019, praying therein for following main relief:

“That Annexure P-1, may be quashed and the respondents may be ordered to grant work charge status to the applicants from the dates they completed 8 years service, with all the benefits incidental thereof.”

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record are that petitioners namely Shri Hans Raj, Sharwan Kumar, Mohinder Kumar, Desh Raj, Naresh Kumar and Shri Geeta Ram came to be appointed as Class-IV employees on daily wage basis in Himachal Pradesh Nagar Vikas Pradikaran (now renamed as HIMUDA) w.e.