ABHILASHA KUMARI, J.

1. Rule. Mr. D.M. Devnani, learned Assistant Government Pleader, waives service of notice of Rule for the respondent State of Gujarat in some of the petitions and Mr. Vishal Patel, learned Assistant Government Pleader waives service of notice of Rule for the respondent State of Gujarat in the other petitions. Mr. D.G. Shukla, learned advocate waives service of notice of Rule for the Gujarat Public Service Commission. In some petitions, the concerned Colleges have been added as parties. In spite of service of notices, they have not chosen to appear before this Court. Hence, there appears to be no necessity of issuing notices of Rule to them. In any event, they are formal parties and no action of theirs is under challenge. As the learned Assistant Government Pleaders are appearing for the State Government, their interest is adequately protected.

2. This group of petitions pertains to the challenge made by the petitioners, who have been appointed as adhoc Assistant Professors/Lecturers in Government Engineering Colleges and Government Polytechnics, to the termination of their services upon completion of eleven months of service. As almost identical issues