ORDER :

1. The petitioner seeks direction to the respondents (i) to treat him as notionally appointed Junior Basic Teacher (in short ‘JBT’) on contract basis in District Kinnaur, H.P. at par with the other candidates, who were appointed in District Kinnaur in February/March 2014 on the basis of counselling held on 14.02.2014 and (ii) consequently to consider him for regularization at par with other candidates so appointed on contract basis and regularized vide order dated 26.05.2017.

2. The pleaded factual matrix of the case is that:

(i) Respondent No. 2, on 12.09.2012, issued orders to fill up 1308 posts of JBT in the State. Out of these 1308 posts, 20 were allotted to District Kinnaur. The process to fill up the posts of JBT was started in some districts, but had to be stopped thereafter due to stay imposed by this Court on making appointments. CWP No. 784 of 2014 was filed in this Court, challenging the conditions imposed by the State in the advertisement to the effect that only those registered in the employment exchanges within the concerned districts, shall be eligible to apply. Subsequently, vide order dated 28.01.2014, passed in CWP No. 784 of 2014, the respondents were direct