JUDGMENT :

The State Government has filed this present appeal being aggrieved by the order passed by the learned Single Judge dated 08.07.2019 in WP.Nos.11604-11607/2013 [K.V.Mudligiraiah & Others vs. The Tumkur Zilla Panchayath and Others].

2. The facts of the case reveal that the respondents before this Court in pursuant to a notification dated 04.04.2011 issued by the Director, Karnataka State Water and Sanitation Mission applied for the post of Coordinator at Taluk and Hobli levels. They were appointed on 21.04.2011. The appointments were made in order to implement a scheme framed by the Government of India under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (hereinafter referred in short as ‘NRPWP’) and their services were put to an end by order dated 25.10.2012. The reasons assigned for discontinuing their services to an end was for the NRDWP scheme under which the Coordinators were working came to an end and another scheme was introduced by the Government of India i.e. Jal Jeevan Mission (hereinafter referred in short as ‘JJM’). As the scheme itself came to an end, the services of respondents were itself continued. A writ petition i.e. WP.No.11604-11607/2013 was preferred before