concurrence of the Commissioner for Rural Development for terminating a person before the expiry of the contract. By G.O (MS) No.47/16/LSGD dated 03.03.2016, the State Government itself provided that the term of Accredited Engineer, Overseer, Data Entry Operator and IT Professional under the Scheme would stand extended to two years; now uniform to all local bodies. The power to appoint contract staff under the Scheme and to decide whether the contract is to be renewed or not is delegated to the Grama Panchayat by the State Government, vide G.O.No.1549/11/LSGD dated 29.06.2011. Hence, the Operational Guidelines of the Scheme specifically provided for contractual appointment, the period of which was also specified by the State Government. Here, the appellants cannot at all claim that they had an expectation to continue until the Scheme is completed since the contract entered into at the time of appointment specifically showed the period of contract. In cases where the appointment was for one year, definitely by the intervention of the State Government it stood extended for another year. However, on the completion of that period too, there could be no claim for further appointment made, by the incumbents. If the local body, which is the implementing agency, decides to terminate the appointees on
