HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL. Writ Petition No. 1244(S/S)2003. Bhuwan Chandra Pant S/o late Damodar Pant, Resident of Vishnupuri Colony, Tanakpur, P.O. Tanakpur, district Champawat. ---- Petitioner. Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal through its Secretary, Ministry of Forest, Dehradun, 2. Chief Conservator of Forest, Uttaranchal Dehradun, 3. Conservator of Forest, Northern Kumaon Region, Nainital, 4. Divisional Forest Officer, Dakshini Pithoragarh Van Prabhag, Champawat. ----Respondents. Sri Anil Kumar Joshi, learned counsel for the petitioner. Learned Standing Counsel for the State/respondents, Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri Anil K. Joshi, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State/respondents. 2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- i. To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to regularise the services of the petitioner on a Class III post, ii. To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to pay to the petitioner his salary in the regular scale of pay of a Class III post as admissible to a person working on regular basis together with all other consequential benefits, which are available to the regularly selected counterparts of the petitioners, regularly every month, 2 iii. To issue a writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper under the circumstances of the case, iv. To award the costs of the writ petition. 3. Submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that he is working as Class-III employee since 01.11.1984 in the Forest Department and is entitled to be considered for regularisation under the Rules known as U.P. Regularisation of Daily Wages Employees of Group-C post (outside the purview of U.P. Public Service Commission) Rules 1998. After creation of State of Uttaranchal, the said Rules were adopted by the State of Uttaranchal also. From the letter dated 30th November 1998 of the Chief Conservator of Forest (Administration), U.P. Lucknow addressed to Conservator of Forest South Kumaon , Nainital it is apparent that the Department has already started procedure for regularisation of the Daily Wages Class-III employees on the post of Clerk/Stenographer/Forester and Driver. By the aforesaid letter, the Conservator of Forests have been directed to send name of those employees who are eligible to be regularised on the post of Group-C under the aforesaid Regularisation Rules. The name of the petitioner finds place at serial no. 100 in the list supplied by the respondent no. 4 and by the letter dated 06.09.2000, recommendation for regularisation of the petitioner’s services on Class-III post has been made. However, till date the respondents have not regularised the services of the petitioner on Group-C Post. 4. In the circumstances, the respondents are directed to consider the case of the petitioner and to take decision for regularisation of his services under 1998 Rugularisation Rules after taking into account the recommendation sent by Officer 3 concerned, within a period of three months from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. 5. With these directions, the writ petition is finally disposed of. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) June 17, 2006: NCM: