( 1 ) TAMIL Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, called TWAD hereinafter, has invoked, this Courts writ jurisdiction against the order (award) of the Additional Labour Court, Madurai, in Industrial Dispute No. 394/85 under which the demand of 27 workmen that they should be made permanent has been declared justified and accordingly ordered.

( 2 ) ALLEGING inter alia that the said 27 employees and ten others were engaged in various jobs under the petitioner and were employed against the sanctioned posts accorded for maintaining, a certain scheme of work for periods for a number of years, yet they were treated as purely temporary employees, the workmen raised an industrial dispute seeking a declaration that they were permanent employees and that they should accordingly be absorbed on permanent basis TWAD Board entered appearance and maintained that they were temporary/casual employees who can be made permanent only by the Managing Director of the Board in accordance with its policy, their employment was on the condition that they would be removed from the employment on the handing over of this scheme to the local bodies as the Board engaged them only for such schemes to be