JUDGMENT :

B.R. SARANGI, J.

The Petitioner, by means of this writ petition, seeks modification of the order dated 14.03.2018 at Annexure-15 passed by the Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack in O.A. No.1116 (C) of 2011 and batch to the extent that the Petitioner, being a senior employee of the Rengali Irrigation Project, Samal, is entitled to the benefit of Work-charged establishment w.e.f. 02.09.1993 instead of 06.09.2003.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that the Petitioner, being a “fully displaced person” of the Rengali Irrigation Project, Samal, was engaged by the Government as NMR employee on 01.10.1983. At the time of his engagement, two sets of employees were engaged by the Government in the same Project, one group was “partly affected persons” and the other was “fully displaced persons”, to which group the Petitioner belonged. Opposite Party No.4, being a “partly affected person”, was engaged as NMR on 01.11.1983. Total 1628 NMR employees were engaged, out of whom 1224 employees, who were partly affected, demanded regularization of their services. Since their request for regularization was not acceded to, the said employees approached the Odis