The Orissa Service of Engineers (Validation of Appointment) Act, 2001

1. This Act may be called the Orissa Service of Engineers (Validation of Appointment) Act, 2001.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Government" means the Government of Orissa;

(b) "Recruitment rules" means the Orissa Service of Engineers' Rules, 1941; and

(c) "Service" means the Orissa Service of Engineers.

3. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Recruitment Rules, the Assistant Engineers as specified in the Schedule indicating their names, dates of birth and dates of appointment who were appointed to the Service on ad hoc basis by Government (in the Works and Housing & Urban Development Departments) of Government to meet the urgent requirement of the said Departments, and are continuing as such, shall be deemed to have been validly and regularly appointed to the Service under said Departments with effect from the date of commencement of this Act and accordingly no such appointment shall be challenged in any Court of law merely on the ground that such appointment was made otherwise than in accordance with the Recruitment Rules.

(2) The Assistant Engineers whose appointments are so validated under sub-section (1) shall be en bloc junior to those who have been appointed to the Service under the respective Departments in accordance with the Recruitment Rules prior to the commencement of this Act.

(3) The inter se seniority of the said Assistant Engineers in the Service under the respective Departments shall be in accordance with the order of precedence in which their names occur in column (2) of the Schedule.

(4) The service rendered by the said Assistant Engineers prior to the commencement of this Act shall count for the purpose of pension, leave and increment, and for no other purpose.

Serial No. | Name | Date of birth | Date of joining as ad hoc Assistant Engineer (1) | (2) | (3) | (4)

A. Assistant Engineer (Civil) under the Works Department 1 | Shri Biranchiprasad Mishra | - | - | 1963 | - | - | 19-5-1986 2 | Shri Basanta Kumar Acharya | - | - | - | - 3 | Shri Bitanananda Mohanty | - | - | - | - 4 | Shri Laxminarayan Nayak | - | - | - | - 5 | Shri Arun Kumar Sahu | - | - | - | - 6 | Shri Sudhir Kumar Chapatia | - | - | - | - 7 | Shri Rajendra Dalai | - | - | - | - 8 | Shri Pradip Kumar Sahu | - | - | - | - 9 | - | - | - | - 10 | Shri Pramod Kumar Nayak | - | 24-2-1960 | 24-4-1987 11 | Shri Braja Kishore Das | - | - | - | - 12 | Shri Dipak Kumar Tripathy | - | - | - | - 13 | - | - | - | - 14 | Shri Akshye Kumar Jena | - | 25-2-1962 | 24-4-1987 15 | - | - | - | - 16 | - | - | - | - 17 | Shri Manoj Kumar Tripathi | - | 1-6-1962 | 2-6-1987 18 | Shri Durga Prasanna Mishra | - | 24-10-1963 | 27-4-1987 19 | Shri Niranjan Padhi | - | 2-8-1962 | 26-5-1987 20 | Shri Kishore Chandra Nayak | - | 27-5-1960 | 25-4-1987 21 | Shri Satyanarayan Sahu | - | 1-4-1961 | 1-5-1987 22 | Shri Chittaranjan Swain | - | 24-9-1961 | 27-4-1987 23 | Shri Bipin Charan Pradhan (S. C.) | - | - | - 24 | Shri Sukanta Behera (S. C.) | - | - | - 25 | Shri Bibhudhendra Meher | - | - | - 26 | Shri Bikram Keshari Lenka | - | 20-3-1963 | 15-11-1989 27 | Shri Sunil Kumar Das | - | 15-6-1961 | 15-11-1989 28 | Shri Sarojini Nayak | - | 29-6-1962 | 15-11-1989 29 | Shri Manmohan Mohanta | - | - | - 30 | Shri Digambar Biswal | - | - | - 31 | Shri Ramya Kumar Panda | - | 1-2-1961 | 15-12-1989

B. Assistant Engineer (P. H.) under the H. & U. D. Department 32 | Shri Asutosh Pattnaik | - | 30-5-1962 | 1-10-1984 33 | Shri Antaryami Nayak | - | 1-4-1959 | 24-4-1987 34 | Shri Binod Prasad Sethi | - | 2-4-1964 | 8-7-1987 35 | Shri Saroj Kumar Satpathy | - | 1-7-1963 | 13-2-1988 36 | Shri Santosh Kumar Nayak | - | 21-5-1960 | 15-2-1988 37 | Shri Bijayananda Samantaray | - | 18-4-1961 | 9-2-1988 38 | Shri Murtunjaya Pani | - | 22-6-1962 | 25-2-1988 39 | Shri Sanjay Kumar Samal | - | 11-5-1961 | 19-2-1988