1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR O R D E R S.B.Civil Writ Petition No. 590/2001 Madhu Sudan Tiwari Vs. State of Rajasthan & Anr. ......... Date of Order : 22/01/2009 P R E S E N T HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.R.PANWAR Mr. Sajjan Singh for the petitioner. None present for the respondents. BY THE COURT By the instant writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondents to regularise him on the post of Investigator with effect from 03.06.2000 and consequential benefits arising therefrom. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was engaged on contract basis by the respondent No.2 under the Programme Tribal Development Evaluation and Study by order Annex.2. His services were terminated with effect from 15.11.97 vide order Annex.3 dated 15.11.1997. Thereafter vide Annex.5, sanction was accorded by the respondent No.2 to engage the petitioner for one month on a consolidated salary of Rs.3000/- per month on contract basis. 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner failed to point out from the record as to whether the petitioner still continues with the Project on a consolidated salary as contract employee. From the order Annex.5, it appears that the sanction was accorded to engage the petitioner on contract basis as Investigator w.e.f. 3.5.2000 for a period of one month on a consolidated salary of Rs.3000/- per month under the Scheme Shri Tiwari Saharia Yojna. From the averments made in the writ petition and the material available on record, it is clear that the petitioner has been engaged on contract basis on consolidated salary in the Project Shri Tiwari Saharia Yojna Evaluation Work and on closure of the Project, the terms of the contract came to an end. A reply to the writ petition has been filed by the respondent taking preliminary objection that the respondent is a Society registered under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act, 1958 and therefore, is not the State under Article 12 of the Constitution of India. The Registration Certificate of the Society has been produced as Annex.R/1. It has further been stated that the respondent Society was established with an objective to undertake, support and sponsor research, training and development with special emphasis on tribal life and culture. The Project was for the evaluation, research and action and therefore, the petitioner and similarly situated persons were engaged on contract basis. Thus, from the record it appears that the engagement of the petitioner 3 was on a consolidated salary purely on contract basis and was terminus with the closure of the project. In the circumstances, therefore, in my view, the petitioner is not entitled for a direction of regularisation when he was knowing it well that he is engaged on a contract basis and the contract period was terminus with the closure of the project. In this view of the matter, I do not find any merit in the writ petition. The writ petition is therefore, dismissed. (H.R.PANWAR), J. rp