F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, J.

Learned Additional Government Pleader is directed to take notice on behalf of the respondents. By consent, the main writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal.

The petitioner seeks for the issuance of a writ of mandamus to direct the respondents Nos. 1 and 2 to regularise the services of the petitioner in the third respondent-bank on the basis of G.O.Ms. No. 86 Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection Department, dated March 12, 2001.

According to the petitioner, he had been in the services of the third respondent-bank from March 30, 2000; that he had completed 480 days of continuous service in 24 calendar months and therefore, he is entitled for the benefits of G.O.Ms. No. 86, dated March 12, 2001.

A perusal of G.O.Ms. No. 86, dated March 12, 2001 discloses that the State Government has conferred the respondents with the powers to regularise the services of such of those employees in the co-operative societies whose services came to be availed by the concerned co-operative societies after July 8, 1982 contrary to the prevailing practice of employing persons through Employment Exchange. The Government Order also stipulates that the respo