ORDER

1. These appeals raise common questions for consideration. They are, therefore, disposed of by a common order.

2. The respondents are licensed porters at Railway Station, Muri on South-Eastern Railway. They were discharging the work of loading and unloading of parcels from trains at the parcel office at Railway Station, Muri. For that work, they were being paid at the rate of Rs 15 for 8 hours. The respondents in Civil Appeals Nos. 9378-79 of 1995 filed applications (OAs Nos. 1024 and 1209 of 1989 and OA No. 425 of 1990) before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Calcutta Bench (hereinafter referred to as "the Tribunal") seeking regularisation as railway employees. The said applications were contested by the Railway Administration. By judgment dated 18-2-1994, in OAs Nos. 1024 and 1209 of 1989, the Tribunal has held that the said respondents were being utilised on the strength of an agreement as per the terms of the licences issued to them as porters and that any service rendered by them during continuance of such agreement, could not give them right or status of independent casual labourers serving in the Railway Administration and that they could not be treated on a par wi