( 1 ) CHALLENGE is made by the petitioner to the order dated 3rd November, 1981 of respondent No. 1 whereunder it was held that the petitioner could not be treated as a protected teacher. The petitioner was appointed as craft teacher in the Web Memorial Girls High School run by the Education Board of baroda Methodist Church, Gujarat Conference in Southern Asia, now run by methodist Church in India, with effect from 1-8-1858. The petitioner was taking periods for Standards V to VII in the subject of craft and other subjects which were assigned to her by the Principal from time to time. The petitioner has come up with the case that she was in service in a secondary school as on 29th March, 1965. Upto 1976 the school was working in three different sections, namely, Standards I to IV, Standards V to VII and Standards VIII to X. The respondent-management is also running a school known as Hill Memorial High School since 1940. The said school had classes from Standard VIII to Standard X. The petitioner was taking the periods for Standards V to VII. It is the school which was the sister concern of Hill memorial High School. Both the schools were run by common management. T