JUDGMENT :

HON'BLE J.J. MUNIR, J.

This writ petition is directed against an order dated 26.04.2023 passed by the Project Director, District Rural Development Agency, Jaunpur, rejecting the petitioner’s claim to treat his age of superannuation as 60 years and extend him all benefits thereof. For the sake of brevity, the District Rural Development Agency shall be hereinafter be referred to as the ‘DRDA’.

2. The petitioner was initially appointed as a Junior Clerk with the DRDA, Mirzapur in the year 1989. The petitioner says that he was retired from service on 31.12.2012 at the age of 58 years, instead of 60. He says that he was entitled to continue in service up to the age of 60 years, which is his age of superannuation and that he should be given all benefits determined on the basis of his age of superannuation being 60 years. The DRDA is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860[‘the Act of 1860’ for short], though entirely under the control of the State Government. According to the petitioner, by a circular dated 29.10.1983, service conditions of employees of the DRDA are to be the same as those of the State Government employees. Earlier, the age of retirement f