JUDGMENT :

All these three writ petitions being connected with similar grievance and reliefs, those are taken together for hearing and are disposed of by this common judgment and order. The grievance, in gist is the issue regarding the monthly salaries of the petitioners and their regularization in service.

2. Before going to the issue which has arisen for determination, it would be convenient if the facts of the cases are narrated briefly.

3. In writ petition WP(C)/7586/2022, there are 57 nos. of petitioners who were initially working under the Assam Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board (hereinafter AUWS&S Board) in various parts of the State. Similarly, in WP(C)/3263/2023, there are 22 nos. of petitioners working in similar capacity on work charged basis. The petitioners in WP(C)/1989/2023 are 34 in numbers who are also working as work charged Khalashi in the Barak Valley Division of the AUWS&S Board. The petitioners claim to have been working for a long period of time without their services being regularized. Vide a notification dated 21.06.2022 issued by the Housing and Urban Affairs Department, Government of Assam, the AUWS&S Board was to partially handover the running schemes t