Devan Ramachandran, J.

This phalanx of appeals, over sixty five of them, call attention to the 'Admission Policy' and the procedure formulated by the Employees State Insurance Corporation ('the Corporation' for short), which according to them, has obtained the approval of the Government of India, for admission to the Medical/Dental Colleges under the Corporation and to some specified Government Medical Colleges, under a quota called the 'Insured Persons Quota'.

2. The various petitioners in the writ petitions, from which these appeals have arisen, either claim to be Insured Persons under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 ('the Act' for brevity) or their children and seek admission to the Medical/Dental Colleges under the 'Insured Persons Quota'.

3. While in some of the writ petitions, the challenge is impelled against the Admission Policy published by the Corporation this year on the assertion that the said Policy is contra legis, ultra vires and contrary to the mandate of the Act, in certain others, the petitioners claim the benefit of declarations made by this Court in the judgment reported as Bindu Radhakrishnan v. Employees State Insurance Corporation, New Delhi an