JUDGEMENT

1. Present petition has been filed seeking a direction to the Respondent to continue the Petitioner on contractual basis as Trainee Engineer and not replace him with a similarly situated contractual employee.

2. Court is once again faced with the legal issue of replacement of one contractual employee with another contractual employee in the present case, which has come up time and again before the Courts and in my view the law on this is well settled.

3. The brief facts which need to be mentioned can be encapsulated as under:-

a. Petitioner herein is a Post Graduate with M.Sc. in Environmental Science, a Degree he acquired in May, 2016. The Respondent/Delhi Pollution Control Committee came into existence on 01.06.1991 and is an Autonomous Body to which the powers were delegated by the Central Pollution Control Board under Section 4 (4) of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Section 6 of the Air Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.

b. Petitioner applied against the vacancy of Trainee Engineer published by the Respondent in the year 2017, wherein one of the qualifications for the said Post was M.Sc. on a full time regular basis from a recogni