1. The orders issued by the Government on 09.05.2016 and 05.08.2016 are under challenge in all these writ petitions, filed by retired and serving teachers of aided Colleges, who claim that their prior service rendered in aided colleges including provisional and broken spells as leave substitutes should be counted along with their regular service in aided colleges. As a common issue is arising for consideration, all these writ petitions were heard together and are disposed of by this common judgment.

2. These cases had come up for hearing along with the cases filed by teachers of aided colleges/schools with prior broken spells of service in aided schools challenging the very same Government orders. Noticing the difference in the provisions contained in clause (a) and clause (b) of Rule 14E of Part III of the Kerala Service Rules (hereinafter referred to as `KSR' for short) which relate to the previous service rendered in aided schools and those in aided colleges respectively, I have delinked the cases in which the petitioners rendered previous service in aided schools and pronounced separate judgment in their case in my judgment dated 14.08.2017 in W.P(c). No.30167 of 2016