( 1 ) HEARD Sri Pankaj Srivastava, learned Counsel for the petitioners, Sri M. C. Chaturvedi, additional Standing Counsel and Sri Rajni Kant Tiwari, learned Standing Counsel appear for state respondents.

( 2 ) THIS bunch of writ petitions seeking regularisation of daily waged ; Group c and Group d employees of the forest department in the State of U. P. was last heard on 29. 9. 2005.

( 3 ) THE petitioners in these writ petitions are daily rated employees serving in Bundelkhand, allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly and Agra Forests Circles including its 20 Forest divisions working since last more than fifteen to twenty years. In the first round of litigation a Division bench of this Court in State of U. P. v. Puti Lal (1998) 1 UPLBEC 313, allowed the Special appeals against the order of learned Single Judge directing regularisation of daily waged employees. The Division Bench directed the Stale of U. P. to appoint a Committee consisting of secretaries of Finance and Forest Department, and Legal Remembrancer, or their nominees to consider the question of framing a Scheme for regularisation/absorption of the petitioners and other similarly placed employees working in the f