S. K. KULSHRESTHA, J.

( 1 ) ALL these petitions challenge orders identical to the order dated November 27, 1999 (Annexure P/5) passed by the Labour Court and order Annexure P/7 dated February 23, 2000 passed by the Industrial Court affirming the said order Annexure P/5 in Civil Appeal no. 260/99/mpir in the case of the employee budha Rao Magarde in W. P. No. 3510/2000 and were, therefore, analogously heard and are being decided by this common order on the basis of the facts of W. P. No. 3510/2000 / engineer-in-Chief, P. H. E. D. and others v. Budha Rao Magarde and others. The employee in each of the above cases had approached the labour Court under Section 31 (3) of the M. P. Industrial Relations Act, 1960 (MPIR Act for short) for seeking classification on the post on which he had been working in the Kolar Project of the petitioner Public Health Engineering department. It is not disputed that the employees were inducted on daily wages from 1989 onwards till 1993.

( 2 ) THE case of the employees before the labour Court was that being an engineering undertaking, the activities of the petitioner public Health Engineering Department were governed by the provisions of the MPIR Act.

( 3 )

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