( 1 ) ). AS facts and legal issues involved in all these petitions are similar, at the request of the learned Advocates, all the petitions are heard together.

( 2 ) ). The petitioners are daily-wagers who were working as Class III and IV workmen under respondent No. 1- Nagarpalika. It is their case that they were appointed as daily-wagers during the period commencing from 1996 to 1999. Initially, at the time of filing of the petitions, it was an apprehension of the petitioners that their services might be termintated without following legal procedure, and therefore, they had prayed that the respondents should be directed not to terminate their services but during the pendency of the petitions, they were relieved, and therefore, the petitions were amended and by virtue of the amendment, it has now been prayed that they should be reinstated in service as daily-wagers.

( 3 ) ). Certain facts are not in dispute. The petitioners were working as dailywagers in different departments of respondent No. 1-Nagarpalika. They were appointed or engaged as daily-wagers without following any legal procedure. Their names had not been received from any employment exchange or they were