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2025 Supreme(HP) 1597

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA
RANJAN SHARMA
Jayanti Rathore – Appellant
Versus
State of Himachal Pradesh – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. A.K. Gupta and Mr. Bonit, Advocates.
For the Respondents:Mr. Navlesh Verma, Additional Advocate General

Table of Content
1. daily wagers claim arrears from work-charge status date. (Para 1 , 2)
2. state denies arrears to non-petitioners; no rebuttal. (Para 3 , 4)
3. work-charge status with notional benefits affirmed per sc. (Para 5 , 6)
4. petition disposed granting notional benefits only. (Para 7 , 8)

JUDGMENT :
Ranjan Sharma, Judge

Petitioners, Jayanti Rathore and five others initially filed an Original Application No 566 of 2017 before Learned State Administrative Tribunal and upon abolition of the Tribunal, the matter came to be transferred to this Court, as CWPOA No 3103 of 2020, seeking the following reliefs:-

“That the respondents may be ordered to given entire arrears to the applicants from the dates they have been given work charge status till their services were regularized.”

FACTUAL MATRIX:

2. Grievance is that petitioners were engaged as Beldar in the Irrigation and Public Health Division No-II, Shimla (now Jal Shakti Vibhag) w.e.f. 01.01.1996 and their services were regularized in the month of December 2006. They were granted work charge status retrospectively w.e.f. 01.01.2004 [in case of petitioners 1 and 2] and w.e.f. 01.01.2005 [in case of petitioners 3 to 6], but the conseque

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