JUDGMENT

A disengagement notice, hereinafter referred to as impugned communication issued by the respondents in the name of petitioners is the subject matter of the writ petition. The petitioners seek its quashment and subsequently allowing them to continue in contractual service till the scheme, pursuant to which they came to be engaged, is subsisting.

2. To understand the issue in its right perspective, the facts leading to filing of the writ petition are enumerated hereunder:-

i) In the year 2009, the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd., created an authority namely, J&K Bank Rural Self Employment Training Institutes Society, for short JKBRSETI Society. The objective of the society amongst others, is to promote JKBRSETIs, to impart entrepreneurship development, self-employment trainings, instructions and skill building programmes etc., in the State. In that direction the society set up JKBRSETIs in various districts, J&K Bank acting as a lead Bank. The funding of the society was provided by the Sponsor Bank, Government of India, State Government or any other instrumentalities or institutions of the same, directly or indirectly, for carrying out and pursuing the objectives of the society. I