ORAL JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P. B. BAJANTHRI)

Date : 31-01-2024 The Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited through the Managing Director, the present L.P.A. is filed in assailing the order of the learned Single Judge dated 07.08.2019 passed in C.W.J.C. No.13542 of 2019.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 06.07.2006, the appellants notified contractual appointment. Pursuant to the advertisement, members of the Employees Association- Respondents submitted their application and they were selected and appointed on 13.12.2006. Such a contract appointment was for a period of one year and it was extendable from time to time and they were appointed on consolidated pay of Rs.5000/- per month. On 03/04 March, 2015, the appellants have taken a decision “Appointment of the persons engaged on contract on various post in regular pay-scale” and they proceeded to resolve as under:

“RESOLVED THAT the personnel engaged on Contract Basis on the post of Legal Supervisor-II, Stenographer-II, Junior Line man, Switch Board Operator, Assistant Operator, Computer Data Entry Operator, shall be appointed in regular pay scale on the terms and conditions as mentioned in Para-7 of the Ag