( 1 ) RULE. Mr. Munshaw and Mr. Joshi waive service of rule for the respective respondents. With the consent of the parties, the matter is taken up for final hearing today.

( 2 ) THE petitioner was selected as a primary teacher on 8. 10. 1992 in Ikbalgadh Ashram Shala. The State Government had passed a resolution dated 23rd August, 1973, consequent on the representation to Government that teachers appointed in Ashram Schools run by voluntary agencies have no security of service, as a result of which they leave the institutions as soon as they secure better employment, on account of which the work in Ashram Schools suffer. It was, therefore, decided by the said Resolution that such teachers employed in the Ashram Schools and who possess the prescribed qualifications and experience for appointment as primary teachers of the District Education Committees under the Panchayats and who are within the prescribed age limit on the day of their recruitment in the service of Ashram Schools were allowed to have their lien in the services of the respective District Education Committees under the Panchayats and the services of such teachers are counted in the services of the Di