ORDER

These appeals and the writ petition raised the common question as to whether services rendered as an Adult Education Supervisor under a non-formal Education Scheme, evolved by the State of Haryana, can be counted for the purpose of granting pensionary benefits as well as for the purpose of fixation his pay, when such an employee is recruited to a regular post under the State Government either with or without break of service. Needless to mention that these appellants after having served for a number of years under the Rural Education Literacy Project/State Adult Education Programme the Scheme itself under which they had been discharging their duties stood abolished, and consequently the appellants ceased to be employees. They had approached this Court in a writ petition, which was registered as Writ Petition No. 1040/1990 seeking a Mandamus to the State Government for their absorption in any regular cadre of the State Government in the said case, the Counsel appearing for the State Haryana fairly stated that the Government is prepared to absorb the applicants in the State s service as and when vacancies in the cadre of Social Studies Teachers and Masters are available, and on