Page No.# 1/3 GAHC020004672024 2025:GAU-NL:183 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) KOHIMA BENCH Case No. : WP(C)/171/2024 SHRI JEB BAHADUR CODE NO. MON-0492 WORK-CHARGED KHALASI O/O EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PHED MON NAGALAND VERSUS THE STATE OF NAGALAND AND 3 ORS REPRESENTED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVT. OF NAGALAND 2:THE COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS DEPARTMENT NAGALAND KOHIMA 3:THE COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND PHED NAGALAND KOHIMA 4:THE CHIEF ENGINEER PHED NAGALAND Page No.# 2/3 KOHIM Advocate for the Petitioner : SUPONGWATI WALLING, R ATSULA KIPS Advocate for the Respondent : GOVT ADV NL, BEFORE HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE YARENJUNGLA LONGKUMER O R D E R 07.05.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. H. Manom Konyak. Also heard learned Government Advocate, Ms. Seponglemla Chang for the State respondents. 2. The writ petition has been filed by the petitioner praying for regularization of his service as per the Office Memorandum dated 17.03.2015. It is submitted that the petitioner, Mr. Jeb Bahadur was appointed as Work-Charged Khalasi under the establishment of the Executive Engineer, PHED, Mon w.e.f. 21.08.1989. It is stated that the Government of Nagaland in the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department (Administrative Reforms Branch) had issued an Office Memorandum No. AR-3/GEN-201/2009 dated 17.03.2015, which lays down the provision that all existing Work-Charged and Casual Employees of various Departments who are enjoying scale pay, and who have completed 30 years or more of continuous service as on 01.01.2015, will be regularized by conversion of their post into regular ones personal to them. It is the contention of the petitioner that the petitioner has fulfilled Page No.# 3/3 the criteria of the Scheme dated 17.03.2015 but his case has not been considered by the authorities till date. 3. The learned Government Advocate, Ms. Seponglemla Chang has produced a copy of the Office Order No. CE/PHE/EST-WC/R-30/2016 dated 13.09.2024 by which the service of the petitioner has been regularized w.e.f. 02.01.2020. Accordingly, learned Government Advocate submits that the petition may be closed as the prayer of the petitioner is already complied with by the Government Authorities. 4. This Court has considered the facts and circumstances and the submissions made by the counsels of the parties and as the petitioner has already been regularized by the aforementioned Office Order dated 13.09.2024, nothing remains to be adjudicated in the present matter. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed. JUDGE Comparing Assistant