ORDER :

1. Heard learned Advocate for the petitioners and learned AGP for the respondent State.

2. Issue Rule. Learned AGP and learned Advocate for the respective respondent waive service of Rule.

3. At the outset, learned Advocate for the petitioners would submit that the issue raised in these petition is covered by a decision of this Court in Special Civil Application No.10738 of 2020 and allied matters dated 14.03.2024 and whereas it is submitted that the said decision with a modification had been confirmed by the Division Bench. It is submitted by the learned Advocate for the petitioners that since the petitioners are similarly situated to the petitioners of the above writ petitions, the same benefit as modified by the Division Bench, may be accorded to the present petitioners.

4. Learned AGP and learned Advocate for the District Panchayat would not dispute the proposition as having been submitted by learned Advocate for the petitioners.

5. It would appear that the petitioners before this Court, had been appointed on compassionate basis in terms of Government Resolution dated 15.06.2004, which prescribed the appointments on fixed pay on Ad-hoc basis for a period of 5 years and upon