( 1 ) IN this batch of 128 writ petitions, the petitioners, who are employed in the Work Charged Establishment and Provincial Establishment of the A. P. State Irrigation Development Corporation (for short the Corporation), as executive Engineers, Deputy Executive Engineers, Work Managers, Assistant executive Engineers, Assistant Engineers, Work Inspectors, Assistant geophysicists/assistant Hydrogeologists, Draftsmen, Electricians, Fitters, riggers, H. Ms. , N. T. Ms. , M. Ms. , P. Os. , Drillers, Tracers, Stenographers, assistant Section Officers, Assistants, Typists, Drivers, Helpers, cleaners, Lascars, Watchman, etc. , are assailing the individual notices issued to them by the respondent-Corporation, identifying them as surplus staff and requiring them to opt for VRS, on a number of grounds. Though a number of grounds have been urged by the learned counsel for the petitioners in support of this batch of writ petitions, they in essence have sought to attack their very identification as surplus, requiring them to opt for VRS. Inasmuch as the issues involved in this batch of writ petitions, are more or less identical, they were heard together and are being disposed