Aftab Alam J.

This batch is made up of a large number of cases relating to 'Project Schools'. The petitioners in most of the cases in this batch seek appropriate directions to the concerned authorities to recognise/regularise their services in the Government following the taken-over of the private schools where the petitioners had been working. In some of the cases the controversy has not reached the stage of recognition/regularisation of services of the individual teachers and the claim is for a hitherto private school to be taken over as a project school. The cases in this batch are based on similar facts and involve identical questions of law and hence they have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order. For the sake of convenience this large group has been divided into subgroups and a number of cases have been dealt within smaller sub-groups. There are a few cases Which were heard along with the cases being disposed of by this judgment but it was found that they do not fall into any of the sub-groups taken up for consideration in this judgment and hence those cases are proposed to be re-listed for hearing and those would be disposed