JUDGMENT :

B.R. SARANGI, J.

The petitioner was appointed in Orissa State Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank Ltd., Bhubaneswar (OSCARD Bank) as contingent Junior Assistant on 11.06.1982 along with others. While continuing as such, the committee of the OSCARD Bank made a resolution on 10.09.1986 approving the earlier resolution dated 23.01.1986 to regularize the services of the contingent employees in their respective posts. But, the Chief Administrator of the committee offered his dissenting views, and consequentially the matter was referred to the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Orissa for final decision. The Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Orissa in Revision Case No.30 of 1986 vide order dated 18.06.1988 directed the OSCARD Bank authorities to regularize the services of contingent employees, as stood on 23.01.1986, and to implement the resolution of the committee dated 23.01.1986. Subsequently, in another meeting of the Board held on 25.05.1987, same view was reiterated to regularize the services of the contingent employees within a period of two months from 20.06.1987. Pursuant to such resolution and finding of the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Orissa, the