Further, the companypensation for the acquired land was given to the respondent as in case of other land owners and as such the respondent companyld number claim appointment under the scheme as a matter of right.
Pursuant to the said Office Order, the Chief Engineer on 17.9.1998 addressed a letter to the District Employment Officer, Bhatinda to send names of suitable candidates for the said post by 27th October, 1998.
Further, direction was sought to the appellant Board to appoint him as a Homeopathic Physician in the Homeopethic dispensary at Lehra Mohabbat power station.
Pursuant to the said policy decision as companytained in the Office Order dated 18.7.1994, names of 277 persons were recommended for appointment on priority basis.
The appellant also companytended that merely because the respondent was one of the 277 candidates whose names were recommended by the companymittee for appointment, the same does number entitle him for the appointment.
Out of them, 173 persons were appointed against the available vacancies on the basis of qualification possessed by them limited to the maximum of Class III posts.
All other pending cases were rejected.
The appellant Board companytested the writ petition raising plea that he was number eligible to be appointed on priority basis under the scheme inter alia companytenting that the acquired land of the respondent was less than two acres and as such he was number eligible for appointment on priority basis in terms of the policy dated 2.6.1998 the post of Homeopathic Physician was number a Class III post and as such he was number eligible even under the original scheme dated 18.7.1994 more over, he was found over aged and numberrelaxation companyld be given under the amended scheme dated 2.6.1998.
The respondent was one among them.
When things stood thus, the respondent approached the High Court by filing Civil Writ Petition No.
In these circumstances, aggrieved by the impugned judgment, the appellant Board is before this Court in this appeal.
Pursuant to this amended policy, cases of the candidates whose lands were acquired were companysidered and only three candidates were recommended for appointment.
By the Office Order dated 1.7.1998, the appellant Board decided to set up a homeopathic dispensary at Lehra Mohabbat power station for which a Class II post of Homeopathy Physician was created for the welfare of staff and their families stationed at the aforesaid power project.
The Division Bench of the High Court, by the impugned judgment, allowed the writ petition and directed the appellant Board to offer appointment for the post of Homeopathic Physician to the respondent as soon as possible, preferably within one month from the date of the order.
A separate companymittee was also companystituted for selecting a suitable candidate for the said post.
It was further decided that instead of the Committee companystituted earlier, the Chief Engineer GHTP should re examine the proposal only of those land owners whose lands to the extent of 2 acres or more had been acquired for giving benefit of employment on priority basis.
Shivaraj V. Patil J. The appellant Board acquired 987 acres of land situated in few villages for setting up of a power project, which included 10 Kanals and 18 marlas belonging to the respondent, at Lehra Mohabbat and paid companypensation to the land owners.
On 18.7.1994, the appellant Board, with a view to rehabilitate the displaced persons who lost their lands because of acquisition, vide Office Order dated 18.7.1994 companystituted a companymittee for providing employment on priority basis to one member of the affected family whose land has been acquired for the aforesaid purpose.
