JUDGMENT :

Magrey, J.

1. This Letters Patent Appeal, initially registered as LPA No.7/2019 and subsequently renumbered as LPAOW No.03/2019, has been filed against the judgment and order dated 30.11.2018 passed by the learned Writ Court in OWP No.429/2018, with further prayer to allow the said writ petition which had been filed by the appellants challenging the Award dated 18.09.2017 passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court-II, Chandigarh in Case No.ID No.10/2016, directing the appellants herein to grant temporary status to the respondents herein to be entitled to all the benefits as available to the workmen who were granted temporary status as per the Casual Labourers (Grant of Temporary Status and Regularization) Scheme of 1993 of the Government of India.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the members of the respondent-Association, 37 in all, are stated to have been engaged by the appellants as casual labourers for the discharge of different functions in Radio Kashmir, Srinagar, on contract basis from time to time since 1991. They raised an industrial dispute before the Regional Labour Commissioner(C), Jammu, regarding regularization of their service