JUDGMENT

'The State to secure a social order for the promotion of the welfare of the people.- The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national life.

The State shall, in particular, strive to minimize the inequalities in income, and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, P.T.O. facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations.'

2. The petitioner-WATCHMAN UNDER THE WORK CHARGED ESTABLISHMENT, as applicant before the Odisha Administrative Tribunal in O.A. No.1791 of 2017 filed under Section 19 of the ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT , 1985, which is later renumbered as WPC (OA