( 1. ) THE Supreme Courts observation and hope expressed in Deokinandans case 1984-II L. L. J. 318 that in future the employees who serve the Government would not be exposed in the fall of their life to such a costly and unending litigation to claim what is justly due to them on the date on which the bond of service is snapped, stands wholly belied and contradicted by the respondents in this petition. As back as in 1983 in D. S. Nakara v. Union of India 1983-I L. L. J. 104 posing a question what is pension, and what are the goals of pension, and what public interest or purpose if any, it seeks to serve; the highest Court proceeded to answer the same inter alia that pension is not only a compensation for service rendered in the past but it has broader significance in that it is a measure of socio-economic justice which inheres economic security in the fall of life when physical and mental prowess is ebbing corresponding to aging process and therefore, one is required to fall back on savings. Article 41 obligates the State within the limits of its economic capacity and development to make effective provisions amongst others for assistance in case of old age, sickness and di