SRINAGAR, Aug 29: High Court has refused to grant the benefit of SRO 520 to 179 of daily wagers as they failed to establish that they were engaged prior to the ban imposed by the Government on hiring daily wagers.
179 daily wagers working in the Power Development Department approached the Court that their names have been excluded from the list of 472 PDLs/TDLs prepared for consideration of regularization under SRO 520 of 2017 by the department.
They claimed that they have been engaged as daily rated workers between 2012 and 2015, i.e. prior to the imposition of ban on fresh engagement of daily wagers with effect from 17.03.2015.
According to them, their names have figured in some earlier lists prepared by the department, but have been subsequently excluded from the list of 472 PDLs/TDLs prepared for consideration of regularization under SRO 520 of 2017.
The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohammad Yousuf Wani dismissed their plea by recording that they have failed to prove before the court that they were engaged prior to ban as such a preliminary or provisional inclusion in a departmental list, by itself, cannot confer any right to regularization when the requirement of engagement prior to the cut-off date remains un-established.
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