Mihir Kumar Jha, J.

1. All these cases having a common issue have been heard together and are being disposed of by this judgment. The issue revolves rounds the merger of the posts of teachers in Subordinate Education Service (Teaching Branch) in the Bihar Education Service Class-II.

2. In this batch of seven cases, five of them namely, LPA Nos. 418 of 2009, 974 of 2007, 947 of 2007, 946 of 2007 and 941 of 2007 are by way of appeals against the order of the learned Single Judge dated 31.10.2007* in CWJC No. 10091 of 2006 and CWJC No. 1467 of 2006, whereby and whereunder, he has set aside the Government order dated 7.7.2006 of merger and has left the matter to be decided afresh by the State Government. The sixth case, a writ petition CWJC No. 8679 of 2002 by one retired teacher of Bihar Subordinate Education Service, is in respect of only grant of consequential benefits in terms of the resolution of the State Government dated 11.4.1977 and the direction of this Court in the order dated 2.2.2000 passed in CWJC No. 12122 of 1998. It has to be noted that this very writ petitioner has also filed one of the aforementioned five appeals, namely, LPA No. 947 of 2007. The last of the