B.K. Sharma, J.

1. These batch of writ petitions pertaining to selection and appointment of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers. The grievance raised in these writ petitions and the relief sought for being one and the same, have been taken up for analogous hearing.

The common grievance in all the writ petitions is that the private Respondents involved in the writ petitions who have been selection and appointed as Anganwadi Workers and Helpers being not the residents of jurisdictional Anganwadi centres, could not have been offered candidatures and consequently could not have been selected and appointed. In this connection, the Petitioners have referred to the guidelines framed and circulated by the Government of Assam in the Social Welfare Department in terms of which the candidate for the post of Anganwadi Worker (AWW) and Anganwadi Helper (AWH) shall be a local woman residing in the same area where the Anganwadi Centre is located. This is, apart from the other conditions stipulated in the said guidelines.

2. In tune with the said guidelines in the related advertisement inviting applications for the assignment of AWW and AWH it was specified that the candidates must be inhabitants of t