ORDER

1. The main application is under Article 32 of the Constitution while the contempt petition and the interlocutory applications in the connected writ petition are for orders and directions. The common aspects in all the three proceedings are that the petitioners before this Court are Research Scholars connected with projects entrusted to different institutions. They are before the court for security of employment and improvement of conditions of service.

2. In Writ Petition 999 of 1988, along with Writ Petition No. 1043 of 1989 we gave our judgment on March 22, 1990{Dr V.L. Chandra v. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, (1990) 3 SCC 38 We then indicated: (SCC p. 41, para 7)

"The Institute set up by statute is intended to carry on research in a continuous way to improve the level of medical knowledge. Under the Act the Institute is an autonomous body though the Chairman thereof is no other than the Union Minister of Health. It is true that the Institute is entrusted from time to time with research projects by the World Health Organisation, the Indian Council of Medical Research and other government and semi-government bodies. It is appropriate that a scheme should be evolved