JUDGMENT :

DR. B.R. SARANGI, J.

The petitioner, who is a qualified person having B. Sc., I.T.I. with valid electrician license to perform the duty and work of electrician, has filed this application assailing the office order dated 07.09.2012 in Annexure-1, whereby the authority has disengaged him from the duty after 07.09.2012, the date of expiry of his contractual engagement.

2. The factual matrix of the case is that College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar is a technical institution under the BPUT. It issued advertisement on 06.08.2008 for walk-in-interview for selection to different posts including the post of electrician on contractual basis fixing the date of interview on 14.08.2008. Pursuant to such advertisement, the petitioner appeared at the interview for selection to the post of electrician on contractual basis on consolidated remuneration of Rs.3200/-per month. The selection committee selected the petitioner and recommended his name for appointment and accordingly he was appointed on 01.09.2008 on contractual basis for a period of six months and the opposite parties from time to time extended the said contract period by passing several extension orders. Las