Ramachandran Nair, J.

The question raised in the Review Petition and in the connected Writ Petitions is whether the petitioners who are members of the teaching staff namely, Lecturers, Assistant Professors, Professors and Principals of Government Colleges and Aided Colleges in Kerala, are entitled to get a direction from this court to the Government to extend the retirement age of teaching staff in colleges in Kerala from 55 years to 65 years in terms of UGC Regulations dated 30.6.2010 and Central Government Orders annexed thereto. Issue came up before us in a batch of Writ Appeals filed against judgments of the learned Single Judges and in the batch cases we rejected the claim for the reason that retirement age is a policy decision of the State Government and the court cannot interfere in it, much less to issue positive direction to the Government to increase the retirement age of teaching staff in colleges affiliated to Universities in Kerala. We have dismissed the Writ Appeals by taking into consideration the earlier Division Bench judgment of this court in the same subject which was followed by the learned Single Judges while rejecting the claim. The appellants who l