ORDER

By Akhil Kumar Srivastava, Member (J).

This Original Application has been filed by the applicants seeking direction to the respondents to engage them as substitutes in Group ‘D’pursuance to completion of apprenticeship training.

2. In their reply, the respondents have stated that there is no provision for employment in Government services after completion of training. The Railway Board has issued RBE No.34/2010 pursuant to amendment to Section 22 Sub-section (1) of the Apprentices Act, 1961 by giving preference to 20% of the vacancies in case of direct recruitment to posts/categories in Pay Band-1 to Course Completed Act Apprentices. Prior to issuance of said RBE, Course Completed Act Apprentices can be engaged as substitutes in Group D only in administrative exigencies and not as a regular measure.

3. Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that issue involved in this Original Application has already been considered and decided by this Tribunal in OA No.200/786/2017 on 28.06.2023. He prays that this Original Application may also be disposed of in similar terms.

4. We find that while deciding the Original Application No.200/786/2017 (supra), this Tribunal has observed tha