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27. The next judgment of the Supreme Court is Union of India and others v. Suber Mukerjee, 1998 (2) SLR 728, wherein it was held that the work carried out by the respondents numbering 20 as contract labourers in a printing press of Eastern Railway, Calcutta were held to be a work of perennial nature.

28. From the above, it is seen whether the work that is being attended by the petitioners in the respondent Corporation is of perennial nature or their services arc being engaged through a contractor to meet the urgent requirements of temporary nature as contended by the Counsel for the respondents. Admittedly, all the petitioners are working in the maintenance wing of the Electrical department as wiremen, operator (conveyor belt), A.C. operator, supervisor and Kalasis (helper) under the administrative control of the 3rd respondent and in all these categories, even according lo the respondents, all these categories of the workmen are there in the permanent cadre strength of the 3rd respondent organisation and as per their own statements showing the details of the work done by the contract labourers and the regular staff, both the regular employees as well as the contract labourers, are attending to the identical and similar works round the clock in shift system for all the 365 days, even on public holidays and to my mind I do not find any difference in the work turned out by the regular employees and the contract labourer. Further from the agreement that is being entered into by the 3rd respondent with the contractors from time to lime made this aspect more crystal clear. For instance Clause 02.00.