MOHD MAJEED ANSARF Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) S. T. Coleridge's Marinar on voyage, at the fag end of eighteenth century cried "water, Witer, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" (Coleridge in the time of Ancient Marinar ).

(2.) NOT only the continent, where Coleridge was born, but several countries of the other continents have succeeded in quenching the thirst of their people by providing them potable water, but although fifty years' have passed, since the dawn of freedom, in this part of the World, water, which the nature has provided in abundance is scarce. A recent policy pronouncement of the Prime Minister still attaches high priority of the Government to provide drinking water to the millions, whose women folk, on tardy paths are forced to go bare footed, miles away from their villages, to bring a pitcher of water.

(3.) THE department is headed by a Directorate and consisted of Superintend ing Engineer (Civil), Superintending En gineer (Mechanical), Executive Engineer (Civil), Executive Engineer/senior Hydrogeologist, Senior Hydrolpgist/senior Geophysicist, Geohydrologist, Senior Geophysiscist, Assistant Engineer Civil/mechanical, Hydrologist Civil/mechanical, Assistant Geologist, Assistant Geophysicist, Chemist/assistant Chemist, Assistant Hydrogeologist and Assistant Geophysicist; meaning thereby that the ground water department is a multi-dis ciplinary department, where the Scientist and Engineers both put their intellect and energies and work together to utilise the ground water resources for providing drink ing water to the people as well as for irrigat ing the agricultural fields in the State. Whether this department has made any headway or not, to achieve the object for which it was created, cannot be answered as neither this Court has been called upon to adjudicate that point nor it possesses suffi cient date to arrive at a conclusion. But the fact remains, that the Scientists and the En gineers have engaged themselves into a tug of war and made an attempt to turn this Court into an arena, to settle their score. It seems that the petitioners have forgotten the noble goal and the object for which they were inducted into service, wasted their in tellect, energy, experience, resources and time in litigating, for promotion and seniority.