Secretary, State Of Karnataka And ... vs Umadevi And Others on 10 April, 2006
Furthermore, in Umadevi (3) (supra) the issues of absorption, regularization of ad hoc employees appointed/recruited and continued for long in public employment de hors the constitutional scheme of public employment, have been settled once for all. It has been held therein that a contractual appointment comes to an end at the end of the contract, an appointment on daily wages or casual basis comes to an end when it is discontinued, and a temporary appointment comes to an end on the expiry of its term. No employees so appointed can claim to be made permanent on the expiry of their appointments. When regular vacancies in posts are to be filled up, a regular process of recruitment or appointment has to be resorted to as per the constitutional scheme, and cannot be done in a haphazard manner based on patronage or other considerations. It was also held therein that there is no legitimate expectation to be absorbed or regularized in public employment on basis of such relief having been granted to similarly placed employees under certain orders of Court. OM dated 26.10.1984 as well as OM dated 7.6.1988 cannot be read in isolation particularly when the scheme for grant of temporary status and regularization has been notified by DOP & T OM dated 10.9.1993 which introduced the concept of temporary status before undertaking the process of regularization.