ORDER :

By way of instant petition, the petitioners have prayed for following substantive reliefs:­

“(I) Issue a writ on Mandamus or other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents to grant the work charge status after completion of eight years of regular daily wage service i.e. 1.1.2005 and regularized the service of petitioners with all consequential benefits.

(II) Issue a writ of Mandamus or other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents to regularise the service of petitioners after completion of eight years of regular daily wage service by observing the petitioner permanently in the department or in the project as done in the past.”

2. The case as pleaded by the petitioners is that they were engaged on daily wage basis as Class­IV employees in the Integrated Watershed Development Project, Kandi (Hills) (for short “IWD Project”) in the year 1996. The project was part and parcel of the forest department. In the year 2005, IWD Project came to an end and a new project namely Mid Himalayan Watershed Development Project (for short “Mid Himalayan Project”) was started by the forest department. The services of the petitioners were continued in Mid