J.B. Pardiwala, J.

Since the issues raised in all the captioned writ applications are more or less the same, those were heard analogously and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order.

2. For the sake of convenience, the Special Civil Application No. 8152 of 2015 is treated as the lead matter.

3. By this writ application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the writ applicants, serving as the ad hoc Lecturers in the Government Engineering Colleges and Government Diploma Engineering Polytechnics, have prayed for the following reliefs:

“16(a) to direct the respondents, their agents and servants to treat the petitioners, who are appointed as ad-hoc Lecturers in the Government Degree Engineering Colleges and Government Diploma Engineering Polytechnics after May-2008, at par with the ad-hoc Lecturers appointed in the said colleges and polytechnics before May-2008, and to grant them the Pay and Pay-scales and Annual increments and all other benefits at part with them, with effect from the dates of their initial appointments and to direct the responde