JUDGMENT :

PANKAJ PUROHIT, J.

1. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has sought indulgence of this Court for a direction to quash the order dated 23.01.2018, passed by Secretary, Tourism, Government of Uttarakhand, whereby claim of the petitioner for regularization of his services on the post of Lecturer in Government Hotel Management and Catering Institute, Almora.

2. Facts of the case shorn-off unnecessary details are that the petitioner pursuant to an advertisement submitted his candidature for the post of a contractual position of Lecturer (Front Office). The petitioner was selected after facing an interview and was engaged as Contractual Lecturer (Front Office) with respondent no. 4, in the year 1997.

3. It is case of the petitioner that the petitioner was engaged as Contractual Lecturer with respondent no. 4 against a sanctioned and vacant post and the petitioner fulfills the qualification for the said post undisputedly. The petitioner after promulgation of the Daily Wages, Work-Charge, Fixed Pay Scale, Part Time and Ad-hoc Employees Regularization Rules, 2013 (for short “Regularization Rules, 2013”) made a representation to respondent no. 4 on 17.01.2014 for regulariz