( 1 ) THIS petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution is directed against an award dated 7th February 1968 whereby, instead of determining the Industrial disputes referred to the Central Government Industrial Tribunal, Jahalpur, it merely incorporated in the award the terms of a settlement between the parties before it.

( 2 ) THE material facts giving rise to this petition may be shortly stated. The petitioner is employed as a Badli coal loader in the New Chirimiri Ponri Hill Colliery at Chirimiri in Surguja District, of which the respondent 2 is the Chief Mining engineer and is the person ultimately responsible for administration of the coal mine. Sarguja Koyla Khan Karmachari Sangha (respondent 3) is one of the several trade unions of the region, the recognised union being the M. P. Colliery Workers federation. It transpired that, in the year 1967, several demands were made on behalf of the workers of the aforesaid colliery which were not accepted by the colliery management with the consequence that they gave rise to an industrial dispute. The Central Government took notice of the existence of the industrial dispute and by Notification No. 5/7/67/lr-II dat