Vilas V. Afzulpurkar, J.

A large number of batch of O.A.s was decided by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal under the impugned orders herein and the O.A.s were dismissed. The applicants in all the O.A.s are Part-time Lecturers working in Vocational Colleges of the Government. All the applicants are aggrieved by the proceedings of the Commissioner of Intermediate Education passed with regard to each of the applicants whereby, the minimum time scale granted to them was withdrawn with retrospective effect and all of them had questioned their individual orders before the Tribunal in the respective O.A.s.

2. Various contentions were raised before the Tribunal by the applicants claiming that irrespective of their entitlement for regularization of their service, they are entitled to the minimum time scale in terms of the various orders passed by the Government to which, reference will be made herein at appropriate place. The Tribunal had examined the said contentions and negatived the same on legal as well as factual grounds by holding that none of the applicants were eligible to avail the said minimum time scale of pay and consequently impugned orders in each case withdrawing