V. Chitambaresh, J.

Can the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation ('K.S.R.T.C. for short) depart from the general instructions issued by the State Government relating to the recruitment, conditions of service or training of its employees? The common order declining regularisation in service of empanelled employees is impugned in all the Writ Petitions and I shall refer to the parties and exhibits in W.P.(C) No. 8301/2013 for the sake of convenience. The petitioners who have been working for long as empanelled drivers in the K.S.R.T.C. seek regularisation in service on the basis of Ext.P1 order issued by the Transport (A) Department of the State Government. It is discernible therefrom that the K.S.R.T.C. submitted a proposal to the State Government for regularising empanelled employees in its service which however was not accepted in toto. The proposal was that all provisional employees who were in the panel of the K.S.R.T.C. as on 1.9.2008 and have put in eight years of service with a minimum of 120duties an year should be regularised. But the State Government by Ext.Pl order held that those provisional employees who were in the panel of the K.S.R.T.C. as on 21.12.2011 a