JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, Judge (oral):

Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record, are that petitioner namely Kiran Chand Sharma was initially appointed as JBT teacher on contract basis at GPS Shilla, Education Block Naggar, District Kullu, H.P., on 4.12.1997, whereafter after completion of eight years of contractual services, services of the petitioner came to be regularized on 5.7.2006, w.e.f. 1.1.2006 (Annexure P1 and P2). It is also not in dispute that contract services of the petitioner were followed by regularization without there being any interruption. The petitioner claimed before the authorities that services rendered by him on contract basis be also taken into consideration while computing his qualifying service for the purpose of pension (Annexure R-3), but since, no action ever came to be taken at the behest of the respondents on the aforesaid representation filed by the petitioner, he was compelled to approach this Court by way of writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying therein for following main relief:

?That the respondents may very kindly be directed to count the services of the petitioner rendered on contract bas