ORDER :

1. Leave granted.

2. The appeals were heard finally with the consent of the counsel for the parties.

3. The appellant (hereafter referred to as the “Director”) is aggrieved by the impugned final judgment and order dated 24.07.2019¹ [R.P. No. 657/2019, R.P. No. 659/2019, R.P. No. 660/2019, O.P. (KAT) No. 286/2019 and O.P. (KAT) No. 287/2019] as well as orders dated 02.07.2019² [O.P. (KAT) No. 256/2019] and 19.06.2019 ³ [O.P. (KAT) No. 17/2019 and O.P. (KAT) No. 24/2019] passed by the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam.

4. The Director had filed petitions challenging orders of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (hereafter referred to as the “KAT”) which had required the reporting of 28 vacancies in the post of Medical Officer (Ayurveda), Assistant Insurance Officer in the Department of Indian System of Medicine (hereafter referred to as the “posts”).

5. The Kerala Public Service Commission (hereafter referred to as the “KPSC”) issued a notification on 19.11.2014 eliciting applications from amongst eligible candidates for the posts. The first respondent along with several others