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The petitioner, who is a physically challenged person suffering from 40% vision impairment, has approached this Court seeking to direct the respondents to frame a Scheme and consider the claim of the petitioner for regularisation of service and to direct the respondents to permit the petitioner to work on all working days in a month without break.

2. The petitioner is working as Sweeper-cum-

Messenger under the 1^st respondent-Kerala Gramin Bank. The petitioner states that he was originally appointed on

06.11.2000 after a due selection process through Employment Exchange. From the date of appointment, he has been engaged on daily wage basis for 15 days every month continuously. This arrangement is continuing for the past 22 years. In the meanwhile, the petitioner has been transferred from one Branch to another.

3. The petitioner states that he is now aged 56 years and he is the only disabled person serving the Bank continuously from the year 2000 onwards. The Bank has been making payment to his Provident Fund account also.

4. Though the Hon’ble Apex Court, in the judgment in Secretary, State of Karnataka and others v. Umadevi and others [ (2006) 4 SCC