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The petitioners-Sangams (in short ?the petitioners?) have come forward with these writ petitions, seeking following directions:

i) To direct the respondents 1 to 3 to permanently revoke the Registration of the 4th respondent-Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Ltd. (TNPL) to engage Contractor Labours at their Paper and Cement Plants at Kakithapuram, Karur District and Mondipatti, Trichy District and other off sites and consequently direct the respondents 4 to 7 to regularize the service of Contract Labourers, i.e., Members of the petitioner-Federation as per the list appended, who were in service as on the date of Sub-Committee's report i.e., 22.03.2001 from the date of their initial engagement and grant the service, monetary and other benefits. +a direction to the 1st respondent to forthwith consider the application dated 29.12.2014 of the petitioner and grant endorsement for establishing additional 14 Manufacturing units / factory addresses as specified in the Application dated 29.12.2014.
ii) To direct the 2nd respondent-Tamil Nadu State Advisory Contract Labour Board to give a conclusive decision on the Sub-Committee's report dated 22.03.2001 and appropriate recommendation as per the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and consequently direct the 1st respondent-Government to abolish the contract labour system in the 4th respondent ? TNPL (Paper and Cement Industries) as per Section 10(1) of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and consequently, absorb the members of the petitioner-Sangam as regular employees in the 4th respondent ? TNPL from their date of initial engagement.
iii) To direct the 2nd respondent ? Tamil Nadu State Advisory Contract Labour Board to make recommendation for abolition of Contract Labour system in TNPL based on the investigation report of the Sub-Committee dated 22.03.2001 and as per Section 10(2) of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and consequently, direct the 1st respondent ? Government to issue notification for abolition of the contract labour system in the 4th respondent - TNPL (Paper and Cement Industries) under Section 10(1) of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and absorb the members of the petitioners-Sangams and other contract labours as regular employees in the 4th respondent ? TNPL from their date of initial engagement.

4. Learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners has submitted that though the members of the petitioners were engaged to carry out perennial nature of works, they are kept in the same position for a decade and few of them have worked even for two decades also. While so, TNPL has recently given an advertisement to recruit new persons in the place where already contract labourers were engaged, which will amount to divesting of duties of contract labourers, employed in TNPL.

5. Though various points have been raised in the affidavit, this Court is not inclined to deal with all, as it may hurdle the adjudicatory process and also the input that is going to be supplied by the Advisory Committee. It is open to the petitioners to raise all the grounds available to them on the basis of the Sub-Committee's report to be submitted, as the matter is going to be placed before the State Government.