year 1989 for setting up North Chennai Thermal Power Station, which is now under the control of the Petitioner, viz., Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited, and G.O. Ms. No. 656, Labour and Employment Department, dated 29.06.1978 had been issued in which all public sector undertakings had been directed to recruit without reference to Employment Exchange, at least one member of each family, which is displaced on account of acquisition of lands for any projects of such public sector undertaking, if the land acquired had been primary or major source of sustenance for that family. According to the Petitioner, in furtherance to the said Governmental Order, it had by proceedings in B.P. Per (FB) No. 3 dated 25.01.1990 formed a scheme and applications were called from eligible persons, whose lands have been acquired for North Chennai Thermal Power Station and those who were identified for that benefit had been provided employment at that point of time. Long thereafter, the Third Respondent, who had made an application seeking appointment in the services of the Petitioner under the scheme, had filed the Writ Petition in W.P. No. 34638 of 2016 in this Court in that regard, where the following order had been passed:-
