JUDGMENT :

B.S. Chauhan, C.J. - This Writ Petition has been filed challenging the Judgment and Order Dated 13.1.1998 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter called 'Tribunal') in Original Application No. 196 of 1995 by which the Tribunal has rejected the claim of the Petitioner.

2. The facts and circumstances giving rise to this case are that Petitioner filed the Original Application before the Tribunal seeking a direction to regularise his services with retrospective effect and to give consequential benefits. The Petitioner had worked in the Geological Survey of India as a daily rated casual worker and in view of the Government Circular dated 13.11.1979 a casual worker who had put in 240 days of service in a year for two consecutive years was entitled for regularisation. The Petitioner claimed that he had worked for more than 240 days in a calendar year for two consecutive years, i.e., in 1978 and 1979. However, the Tribunal did not find the claim of the Petitioner acceptable. As per the calculation made by the Tribunal, on the basis of record produced before it by the parties, the Petitioner had worked as per the details given below.

Period of duty Days of wor