JUDGMENT Deepak Gupta, J.(Oral): By means of this writ petition, the State has laid challenge to the order, dated 29.11.2002, passed by the erstwhile H.P. State Administrative Tribunal, whereby the Original Application filed by Shri Nain Singh, predecessor-in-interest of the respondents, was allowed and it was directed that pension be granted to Shri Nain Singh after regularizing his services on completion of 10 years service for the purpose of pensionary benefits and pension be granted by counting the regular service and half of the total service rendered by the respondent on daily wages. 2. The undisputed facts are that the respondent was engaged as Fitter on daily wage basis in the year 1979 and continued to work as such till December, 1993. His services were thereafter regularized w.e.f. 1.1.1994 as per the policy framed by the Government pursuant to the directions of the Apex Court in Mool Raj Upadhyaya versus The State of Himachal Pradesh and others, 1994(2) SLR 377. Thereafter, he served as a regular employee upto September, 30, 2001, when he retired on attaining the age of superannuation. 3. We have heard the learned counsel for the parties. We find that the respondent had put in 7 years and 9 months service as a regular employee and had worked for 14 years as daily wage employee. 4. In State of H.P. and others versus Sarab Dayal, 2007 (Suppl.)Cur.L.J.(H.P.) 505, we had held as follows: “We are, therefore, of the considered view that 50% of the continuous service rendered by the employees on daily rated basis followed by work charge/regular employment should be taken into account while calculating the qualifying service for purposes of entitlement to and the amount of pension to be paid to them.” 5. Since the respondent had rendered 14 years service on daily wages, 7 years have to be counted towards pension in addition to the period of 7 years and 9 months during which period he worked on regular basis. Therefore, the qualifying service of the respondent is 14 years and 9 months and pension be granted to him by taking this to be the qualifying period. 6. The writ petition stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms, so also the pending application(s), if any. No costs.