( 1 ) BY means of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution the petitioner has sought the relief of issuance of a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to permit the petitioner to assume his duties as a permanent seasonal weighment clerk/sheet writer in the Kisan Sahkari Chini Mills Ghosi, District Mau (herein after referred as the Mills) and to pay him wages/ salary due since November 8, 1991 in the clerical grade IV.

( 2 ) IT transpires from the record that the petitioner was engaged as sheet writer/weighment clerk in the crushing season 1988-89 and worked in that capacity at Purchase Centres of the Mill even during the following crushing seasons 1989-90 as well as 1990-91. He claims to have worked in that capacity during whole of the second halves of the aforesaid seasons. His case is that he is entitled to be treated as permanent seasonal employee of the Mills under the provisions of the standing Orders, 1988 issued by the State Government in exercise of its power under Section 3 (b) of the U. P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. His grievance is that when the Mills started operating with effect from November 8,