JUDGMENT :

1. Vide this judgment abovementioned appeals would be disposed of as they have arisen out of common order dated 21.08.2018 passed by the learned Single Judge.

2. The question involved in the present cases is as to whether the candidates, who did not have language as optional subject in three years graduation degree course, but had qualified that language as additional subject by giving all the three papers in one year after completion of their Bachelor Degree, were eligible for appointment to the post of Language Teacher.

3. Learned Single Judge vide impugned order dated 21.08.2018 has held as under:

“35. In the result, the State-respondents are directed to exclude the participating candidates from the select list with degree acquired as “additional” in the concerned subject. The candidates who are in possession of graduate degree with optional subject of three years Bachelor’s degree with English as an optional subject in all the three years, should only be treated as eligible and entitled for appointment to the post of Teacher Grade-III Level-II (English), as per their merit.”

4. Hence, appeals have been filed by the State as well as private respondents in the writ petition