SUDHIR KUMAR BOSE Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN the year 1934 the petitioner obtained his first temporary appointment as a lower division clerk in the Khulna Collectorate on a scale of pay of Rs. 35 -80/ -, thereafter revised to Rs. 55 -130/ -. He was made permanent sometime in the year 1935.

(2.) WHEN the Civil Supply Department came into existence, the Commissioner of Food and Supplies addressed the following letter, dated December 6, 1943, to all district officers: - -

(3.) THE department of civil supplies, as is well known, was a non -permanent department. The petitioner and others who had been transferred from permanent government departments to the civil supplies department became at this time apprehensive of their future. They felt that with the stabilisation of the economic condition in the country, the department was going to be abolished and the employees in the department were going to lose their services in the department. Series of representation began to be made to the authorities for laying down definite prospects for employees like the petitioner and for safeguarding them from any loss financial or otherwise in case they were directed to revert to their parent department. Upon such representations, the authorities from time to time recommended that such officers, if found unnecessary in the department, shall be absorbed in posts, comparable to the posts which they were at that time holding. One such recommendation is Annexure 'H' to the petition and is set out below: - -