Bringing a daily wager on CRTE (Converted Regular TemporaryEstablishment) : Kalelkar Award: Whether 240 days' "continuous service"for 5 years is a must ?

Kalelkar Award – Rule 28 – Bringing a daily wager on Converted Regular Temporary Establishment (CRTE)

Rule 28 contemplates continuation of a workman on the daily rated establishment for a period of at least five years, consecutively and without interruption. The rule does not contemplate actual working on the part of the daily rated employee for any specified numbe of days.

Irrespective of number of days of actual work rendered in each of the said five years, the employee would be entitled to the benefit of Rule 28 of having his post converted to the post of converted temporary establishment.

Source: 1992 Lab. I. C. 748 (The State of Maharashtra vs. M. V. Ghalge and another)