( 1 ) THROUGH these 11 petitions common grievance has been raised by ad-hoc appointees as Lecturers in various Colleges against the appointments being given to them for the terms of academic session only denying them the salary for the vacation period, subjecting them to termination at the end of academic session and reappointing them in the next session and termination of their services although no candidates selected by thye G. P. S. C. are available in the respective branch/speciality /subject and they claim continuity of service from the date of their initial appointment. I, therefore, propose to decide all these 11 Special Civil Applications by this common judgment and order as under:

( 2 ) FACTS relating to Special Civil Application No. 2843/91 are as under:- this is a petition filed by two petitioners, namely, Mahendrakumar R. Patel -Lecturer in Gujarati, Govt. Arts College, at Vansada, District - Valsad and Kumari Manjulaben D. Chauhan - Lecturer in Gujarati, Govt. Arts College, at Vansada, District - Valsad. Both these petitioners, claiming that they had been selected by Local Selection Committee as Lecturers in Gujarati subject for the Government Arts College, Vansada, District Valsad, filed the present Special Civil Application stating that their appointment orders have been issued by the Principal and this appointment was only upto the end of the first academic term of 1990-91 and that their services will be liable to termination when the candidates selected by the Public Service Commission report for duties or when these vacancies are filled in by transfer of lecturers from other Govt. Colleges. It is their case that no candidate selected by Public Service Commission had reported on duty and no Lecturers from any other Government College were transferred and posted against the posts held by them; yet the respondent No. 3 i. e. Principal. Govt. Arts College at Vansada, District Valsad terminated the services of the petitioners with effect from 13. 10. 90 i. e. on completion of the first term of the academic year 1990-91. It is also stated by them that the post of Lecturers held by them were sanctioned by the Government on long term basis. It is their say that they were again appointed afresh for the second term of 1990-91 and they were appointed upto 5. 5. 91 on temporary basis for the second term of 1990-91 and the posts have been duly sanctioned by the Government on long term basis. Apprehending that their services will be terminated with the end of the second term of the Session on 5. 5. 91 the present Special Civil Application dated 20. 4. 91 was filed before this court on 20. 4. 91. When the matter came up before the court on 22. 4. 91 Rule was issued and the interim relief was also granted in the terms that the respondents are restrained from terminating the services of the petitioners only on the ground that the period of their appointment had expired coupled with the condition that as and when any candidate regularly selected by G. P. S. C. or other regular appointee is available and such appointee is required to be placed vice the petitioners, it would be open to terminate petitioners services on that ground. It was also made clear that if there is any other lawful reason such as abolition of the post, it will be open for the respondents to terminate the services of the petitioners on that ground. Thereafter, petition has remained pending for all these years since 1991 but none of the three respondents have cared to file any reply whatsoever. No application was filed even for the purpose of modification or vacation of the interim order and the learned counsel for the petitioners submits that both these petitioners are still continuing as Lecturers in Gujarati in the Government Arts College at Vansada, District - Valsad without any interruption. Mr. D. P. Vora, learned counsel for the petitioners, has submitted that the selections were held for the post of Lecturers in Gujarati in the year 200