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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
J.J. MUNIR
Manoj Kumar Mishra – Appellant
Versus
State of U.P. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
J.J. MUNIR, J.
1. This writ petition has been instituted by the petitioner, Manoj Kumar Mishra, a retired Assistant Engineer (Civil), belonging to the U.P. Palika Centralised Service, seeking our mandamus, ordering the respondents to sanction and fix his pension and gratuity, taking into account his entire length of service from 07.03.1995 to 30.06.2024, that is to say, including the period during which he worked ad hoc. The petitioner has further prayed that he be paid his monthly pension regularly, together with arrears, and, further, that gratuity be also determined and paid to him.
2. The petitioner’s case is that he was appointed as a Junior Engineer (Civil) on daily-wages w.e.f. 29.05.1985 with the Nagar Palika Parishad, Mainpuri. He has remained in employment continuously eversince. In the year 1995, proceedings were taken by the State Government to grant appointment as Junior Engineers (Civil) under Rule 31 of the Uttar Pradesh Palika (Centralised) Services Rules, 1966 (for short, ‘the Rules of 1966’) to persons working on daily-wage/ contract/ ad hoc basis in the various Nagar Nigam/ Nagar Palika Parishad. In the aforesaid proceedings, the petitioner’s name was a
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