The High Court of Tripura yesterday dismissed a batch of writ petitions seeking quashing of advertisement for recruitment to the post of Gram Rozgar Sahayak under MGNREGS and regularization of services. A Single Bench of Justice Arindam Lodh dismissed the petitions.
The petitioners challenged the advertisement dated August 08 this year issued by the Rural Development Department, Government of Tripura that invited online applications from the eligible candidates to fill-up the post of Gram Rozgar Sahayak. They also demanded regularization of services.
In the writ petitions, the petitioners apprehend if fresh recruitment would be made, then, their engagement would be terminated on completion of their contract tenure. However, the Court termed the writ petition ‘pre-mature’ and found nothing to infer that on the basis of the advertisement, the contractual services of the petitioners would be at stake.
“It is settled position of law that a person who has been engaged on contractual basis through established procedure of employment cannot be replaced by another person on the same contractual basis”, Justice Lodh observed. Accordingly, the court dismissed the petitions and advised the petitioners to approach before the appropriate authority for regularization of service.
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