IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.116 of 2007 LALCHAND SINGH & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 3/ 5/8/2008. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners were appointed as clerks in the Minor Irrigation Department. In the years-1966 and 1973 their services were merged in the Water Development Corporation. Subsequently, when they became surplus, their services were adjusted in the Provident Fund Directorate in the year-1986. It is their case that they have been transferred from one place to another in different districts in the Provident Fund Directorate and are directly employed in the Provident Fund office at Bhojpur, but are being debarred full benefits of Government employment and schemes in view of their provisional adjustment only in the Provident Fund Office as distinct from a permanent adjustment in the Department. It is their further case that several others likewise declared surplus and provisionally adjusted in the Provident Fund Directorate have been subsequently regularly adjusted. - 2 - In view of paragraph-4 of the counter affidavit filed by respondent No.8, the writ application is disposed with direction to respondent No.3 to take a final decision on the regular adjustment of the petitioners in the Provident Fund Directorate within a maximum period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that the petitioners shall be entitled to full benefits of this regular adjustment from the date that their juniors may have been so adjusted. KC ( Navin Sinha,J )