ORDER

0/o 07.02.2013

1. The Department of Social Welfare is the petitioner in all the four writ petitions aforesaid. Writ Petition (C) No. 5444/2002 has been preferred to assail the A ward dated 18.12.1999 passed in l.D. No. 13 3 of 1997 by the Industrial Tribunal whereby the Industrial Tribunal has held that the Anganwadi workers engaged in Integrated Child Development Scheme (I CDS) run by the Government of N CT of Delhi are "W ork in an" under the Industrial Disputes Act, 194 7 and are entitled to be paid as casual workers and they be paid minimum wages as per the Minimum Wages Act. At the same time, the Industrial Tribunal held that the termination of the workers involved in the said case was legal.

2. Writ Petition (C) No. 4368/2007 has been preferred from the Industrial Award dated 22.07.2006 passed in I.D. No. 41/2002. In this case, the Industrial Tribunal held that the Anganwadi workers and helpers are entitled to extra payment for having worked from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on holidays. Accordingly, the management was directed to pay to the Anganwadi workers overtime at the rates fixed for skilled workers and Anganwadi helpers have been directed to be paid over time as payable