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(a) Sindh Civil Servants Act (XIV of 1973)-------S. 11---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Agricultural Department---Contract employees working for last seven years on basis of annual extension of their contract period, and there was no complaint regarding their conduct, competence and work---Petitioners' plea was that their appointment was on permanent basis, thus, were entitled to all consequential benefits of a regular appointment from date of their initial appointment or in alternative authority be directed to treat them as regular employees in their respective grades from date of their initial appointment---Validity---Appointment of petitioners in year 2005 was for a particular project, which despite continuing from year to year had not yet been concluded---Government was not in a position to state as to when such project would conclude---Word "permanent" in context of employment would not mean lasting till Day of Judgment, but would mean something likely to last for a very long period---Something having continued for seven years could not be said to be temporary anymore---Petitioners for all intents and purposes would be deemed to have been hired on a post of permanent nature---Appointment order of petitioners mentioned therein that Sindh Civil Servants Act, 1973 would be applicable to petitioners---Government could not contend that petitioners despite being governed by said Act were not entitled to all benefits allowed thereunder to civil servants---Petitioners had been recruited for a particular project, thus, Government on administrative ground could neither transfer any of them to another department nor transfer a person from another department to such project, except on deputation basis---Government on completion of such project could exercise its powers under S.11(2) of Sindh Civil Servants Act, 1973---Government was bound to consider petitioners' case for regularization in accordance with observations made in reported as 2011 PLC (C.S.) 281--- Government might frame policy for appointment on contract basis for a limited period---Where Project or job continued beyond limited contract period, then person appointed would be…

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