JUDGMENT :

The present writ petition is taken up today through Video conferencing.

2. The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of direction upon the respondents to forthwith provide employment to the petitioner in lieu of acquisition of his land situated at Plot Nos.228 and 218, Khata No.76 Mouza No.82 which stand recorded in the name of his grandfather Late Bhuwan Pandey (Bhuneshwar).

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that entire Nadkhurkee Basti Part-II consisting of 50 houses and one school building was acquired by the respondent-Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) for which 75 employments were sanctioned out of which 48 employments have already been given and 27 employments are still pending to be given to the displaced raiyats. The petitioner/his father time and again represented the respondent-authorities for providing employment under the Land Looser Scheme of the respondent-BCCL, however, the said matter was kept pending. It is further submitted that respondent-authorities are not permitted to discriminate the petitioner as compared to other displaced persons in the matter of granting employment which is violation of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constit