M. VENUGOPAL, J.

1. The Petitioner has focussed the present Writ of Mandamus praying originally before a Learned Single Judge of this Court for directing the Respondents to pay her family pension, family benefit fund and other terminal benefits including gratuity and also to provide employment to her on compassionate ground.

2. It is not in dispute that the Petitioner is the wife of the deceased Raju, who worked as a Contract Labour in the Civil Section of Power House at Mettur Dam under various Contractors from 01.12.1991 to 30.04.1999. Also that he worked as a Helper in Tamilnadu Electricity Board till his demise on 23.11.2003. The Tamilnadu Electricity Board had not passed orders to make the petitioner's husband as a permanent employee. Subsequently, the Petitioner projected a claim for the retirement benefits on the basis that her deceased husband Raju ought to be treated as a permanent employee of Tamilnadu Electricity Board and also made a claim for Compassionate Appointment to her daughter Valarmathi.

3. The Respondents/Tamilnadu Electricity Board resisted the claim of the Petitioner by contending that her husband Raju was not a permanent employee of the Tamilna