HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 65503 of 2010 Court No. - 34 (SN.49.4) HON'BLE ANISH KUMAR GUPTA, J. 1. Heard Sri Pankaj Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Pradeept Kumar Shahi, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. This instant petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking his regularization as well as grant of minimum pay-scale. 3. The briefly stated facts of the case as per the averments made in the petition is that the petitioner was appointed as Tractor Driver in the year, 2000 in the respondent department. Since then, he was continuously working without any break. 4. Learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State on instructions admits that the petitioner was continuously working since after his engagement and in such view of the matter, the petitioner has been granted the minimum pay-scale of Rs.6050/- on 30.01.2012. Later on, the minimum pay-scale of Rs. 7000/- has been given to the petitioner w.e.f. 30.11.2011 and subsequently, in the year 2023, he was granted minimum pay-scale of Rs. 18000/- per month and the arrears of minimum pay-scale has also been paid to the petitioner in the year 2023. Thus, the petitioner is already continuously working since 2000 and has already been granted minimum pay-scale by the respondents. However, the petitioner claims to be regularized. Admittedly, when the petitioner was Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Pankaj Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent(s) : C. S. C., C.S.C. Ram Babu .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and Others .....Respondent(s) working since 2000, he was not entitled for regularization in terms of the Uttar Pradesh Regularisation of Daily Wages Appointments on Group 'D' Posts Rules, 2001. However, since the petitioner is continuously working since 2000 and the continuity in service is not disputed by the respondents, therefore, he became eligible for regularization in terms of the Uttar Pradesh Regularization of Persons Working on Daily Wages, Work Charge, or Contract in Government Departments (Group C & D Posts) Rules, 2016. 5. In such view of the matter, since the minimum pay-scale has already been granted to the petitioner, the instant petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the claim of regularization of the petitioner in accordance with 2016 Rules within a period of three months from the date of production of certified copy of this order. 6. Let this case be de-linked from bunch matters and shall not be shown in the cause list. May 12, 2026 Shubham Arya WRIA No. 65503 of 2010 2 (Anish Kumar Gupta,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHUBHAM ARYA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad