1. - Rajasthan Public Service Commission, for short 'the R.P.S.C.', on requisition being sent by the Government of Rajasthan, for specified number of vacancies, in specified State and Subordinate Services, invited applications from eligible candidates for permission to appear at the combined competitive examination 1989-90 by publishing a notice dated 15.2.1993 to the said effect in the official Gazette and other papers. Petitioners 1 to 9 in D. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1153/1994 and all petitioners in D. B. Civil Writ Petition Nos. 2115/1994 & 2685/1994 duly submitted their applications in pursuance of the said notice. All the aforesaid petitioners took the preliminary examination in pursuance of the said notification but were not found qualified to take the main examination envisaged by the said notification. Hence, they have filed these three separate writ petitions. Since all these writ petitions pertain to the interpretation of the provisions of the same set of Rules, they have been heard together by common consent and are being disposed of by a common order.

2. His Excellency, the Governor of Rajasthan promulgated the Rajasthan State & Subordinate Services (Direct R