JUDGMENT :

SANDEEP V. MARNE, J.

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Petition is taken up for final hearing with the consent of the parties.

2. This petition is filed by the State Government challenging the judgment and order dated December 14, 2018 passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal) allowing Original Application No. 632/2016. The Original Application was instituted by 29 Original Applicants working on various posts in Government Tribal Industrial Training Institutions seeking counting of their contractual services from the dates of their initial appointments for all purposes, except for monetary benefits. The Tribunal has allowed the Original Application and directed that the services rendered by them before the dates of their regularisation w.e.f. April 1, 2014 be counted for continuity in service and other consequential service benefits, except monetary benefits.

3. Briefly stated, facts of the case are that the Government of Maharashtra introduced a Scheme for imparting vocational training to tribal youths and issued Government Resolution (GR) dated August 23, 2004. The Scheme envisaged, inter-alia, setting up of new training schools as well as convers